微读圣经

Israel’s False Hopes

1Put the ram’s horn to your mouth!8:1 Hs 5:8

One like an eagle comes

against the house of the Lord,8:1 Dt 28:49

because they transgress my covenant8:1 Hs 6:7

and rebel against my law.8:1 Hs 4:6; 8:12

2Israel cries out to me,8:2 Hs 7:14

“My God, we know you!”

3Israel has rejected what is good;8:3 Hs 3:5

an enemy will pursue him.

4They have installed kings,8:4 Hs 13:10–11

but not through me.

They have appointed leaders,

but without my approval.

They make their silver and gold8:4 Hs 2:8; 13:1–2

into idols for themselves

for their own destruction.8:4 Lit themselves that it might be cut off

5Your calf-idol8:5 Lit calf8:5 Hs 10:5; 13:2 is rejected, Samaria.8:5 1Kg 12:28–29; Hs 7:1

My anger burns against them.

How long will they be incapable of innocence?8:5 Ps 19:13; Jr 13:27

6For this thing is from Israel —

a craftsman made it,8:6 Hs 13:2 and it is not God.

The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!

7Indeed, they sow the wind8:7 Hs 10:13

and reap the whirlwind.8:7 Is 66:15; Nah 1:3

There is no standing grain;

what sprouts fails to yield flour.8:7 Hs 2:9

Even if they did,

foreigners would swallow it up.

8Israel is swallowed up!8:8 Jr 51:34

Now they are among the nations

like discarded pottery.8:8 Jr 25:34; Hs 13:15

9For they have gone up to Assyria8:9 Hs 7:11

like a wild donkey going off on its own.

Ephraim has paid for love.8:9 Ezk 16:33

10Even though they hire lovers among the nations,

I will now round them up,

and they will begin to decrease in number8:10 Jr 42:2

under the burden of the king and leaders.8:10 Is 10:8

11When Ephraim multiplied his altars for sin,8:11 Hs 10:1; 12:11

they became his altars for sinning.

12Though I were to write out for him

ten thousand points of my instruction,8:12 Hs 4:6

they would be8:12 Or Though I wrote out... instruction, they are regarded as something strange.

13Though they offer sacrificial gifts8:13 Hb obscure8:13 Hs 5:6; 9:4

and eat the flesh,8:13 Jr 6:20; 7:21

the Lord does not accept them.

Now he will remember their guilt8:13 Hs 7:2; Lk 12:2; 1Co 4:5

and punish their sins;8:13 Hs 4:9; 9:7

they will return to Egypt.8:13 Hs 9:3,6

14Israel has forgotten his Maker8:14 Hs 2:13; 4:6; 13:6 and built palaces;8:14 Is 9:9–10

Judah has also multiplied fortified cities.

I will send fire on their cities,8:14 Jr 17:27

and it will consume their citadels.

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