7:16. They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt. Osee Chapter 8 The Israelites are threatened with destruction for their impiety and idolatry. 8:1. Let there be a trumpet in thy throat like an eagle upon the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and have violated my law. 8:2. They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee. 8:3. lsrael hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall pursue him. 8:4. They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they might perish. 8:5. Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed? 8:6. For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders' webs. 8:7. For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it. 8:8. Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an unclean vessel. 8:9. For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers. 8:10. But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of the king, and the princes. 8:11. Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin. 8:12. I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign. 8:13. They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. 8:14. And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples: and Juda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof. Osee Chapter 9 The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins and idolatry. 9:1. Rejoice not, O Israel: rejoice not as the nations do: for thou hast committed fornication against thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. 9:2. The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the wine shall deceive them. 9:3. They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians. 9:4. They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall they please him: their sacrifices shall be like the bread of mourners: all that shall eat it shall be defiled: for their bread is life for their soul, it shall not enter into the house of the Lord. 9:5. What will you do in the solemn day, in the day of the feast of the Lord?