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Book of Hosea, Chapter 8

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Chapter 8 of Hosea—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ “To your mouth[a]—a horn![b]1 [One comes] like an eagle2 against the house of Jehovah, for the reason that they have overstepped my covenant,3 and against my law they have transgressed.4
  2. To me they keep crying, ‘O my God, we, Israel, have known you.’5
  3. ¶ “Israel has cast off good.6 Let one who is an enemy pursue him.7
  4. They themselves have set up kings,8 but not because of me. They have set up princes, but I did not know [it]. With their silver and their gold they have made for themselves idols,9 to the end that they[c] may be cut off.10
  5. Your calf has been cast off,11 O Sa·marʹi·a. My anger has grown hot against them.12 How long will they be incapable of innocency?13
  6. For from Israel was even this.14 A mere craftsman made it,15 and it is not God;[d] because the calf of Sa·marʹi·a will become mere splinters.16
  7. ¶ “For it is wind[e] that they keep sowing, and a storm wind is what they will reap.17 Nothing has standing grain.18 No sprout produces flour.19 Should any perhaps produce [it], strangers themselves will swallow it down.20
  8. ¶ “Israel must be swallowed down.21 Now they must come to be among the nations,22 like a vessel in which there is no delight.23
  9. For they themselves have gone up to As·syrʹi·a,24 as a zebra isolated to itself.25 In Eʹphra·im’s case, they have hired lovers.26
  10. Also, although they keep hiring [them] among the nations,27 I shall now collect them together; and they will be a little while in severe pains28 because of the burden of king [and] princes.
  11. ¶ “For Eʹphra·im has multiplied altars in order to sin.29 He has come to have altars in order to sin.30
  12. I proceeded to write for him many things of my law;31 just like something strange they have been accounted.32
  13. As my gift sacrifices they kept sacrificing flesh,33 and they kept eating what Jehovah himself took no pleasure in.34 Now he will remember their error and hold an accounting for their sins.35 To Egypt they themselves proceeded to return.36
  14. And Israel began forgetting his Maker37 and building temples;38 and Judah, for his part, multiplied fortified cities.39 And I shall certainly send fire into his cities and it must devour the dwelling towers of [each] one.”40

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit., “palate.”
  2. ^ Or, “shofar.” See 5:8 ftns.
  3. ^ “They,” LXXSyVg; M, “one (he).”
  4. ^ “God.” Heb., ʼElo·himʹ; Gr., The·osʹ; Lat., Deʹus.
  5. ^ “Wind.” Heb., ruʹach; Lat., venʹtum. See Ge 1:2 ftn, “Force.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Je 4:5; Ho 5:8
  2. ^ De 28:49; Je 48:40; Hab 1:8
  3. ^ Je 31:32; Eze 16:59; Ho 6:7
  4. ^ 2Ki 17:15; Is 24:5
  5. ^ Is 48:1; Mc 3:11; Ti 1:16
  6. ^ Ps 36:3; 50:17
  7. ^ Le 26:36; La 4:19
  8. ^ 1Ki 12:20
  9. ^ 1Ki 12:28; Ho 13:2
  10. ^ 1Ki 13:34; Je 44:8
  11. ^ Is 45:20; Ho 10:5
  12. ^ De 32:22; 2Ki 17:18
  13. ^ Je 4:14; 13:27
  14. ^ Ps 106:19
  15. ^ Ps 135:15; Is 44:9; Je 10:3; Hab 2:18
  16. ^ 2Ki 23:15, 19; 2Ch 31:1
  17. ^ Jb 4:8; Pr 22:8; Ga 6:7
  18. ^ Is 17:11
  19. ^ Je 12:13
  20. ^ De 28:33; 2Ki 15:29
  21. ^ 2Ki 18:11; Je 50:17; 51:34
  22. ^ Le 26:33
  23. ^ Is 30:14; Je 22:28; 48:38
  24. ^ 2Ki 15:19; Eze 23:5; Ho 5:13; 12:1
  25. ^ Je 2:24
  26. ^ Eze 16:33
  27. ^ Eze 16:37; 23:9
  28. ^ 2Ki 14:26; 1Ch 5:26
  29. ^ Is 10:11; Eze 6:13
  30. ^ De 4:28; Ho 12:11
  31. ^ De 4:6; Ps 119:18; Pr 22:20
  32. ^ 2Ki 17:15; Ne 9:26; Is 30:9
  33. ^ Je 7:21
  34. ^ 1Sa 15:22; Pr 21:27; Is 1:11; Am 5:22
  35. ^ Ho 9:9; Am 8:7
  36. ^ Ho 7:16; 9:3
  37. ^ De 32:18; Is 51:13
  38. ^ 1Ki 12:31
  39. ^ 2Ch 26:10
  40. ^ 2Ki 18:13; 2Ch 36:19; Je 17:27; 34:7

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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