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    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "hosea",
    "chapter": 8
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 8,
    "bookSlug": "hosea",
    "bookCode": "HOS",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "HOS-8:1",
        "verseRef": "HOS.8.1",
        "text": "“Put the trumpet to your lips!\nSomething like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house,\nbecause they have broken my covenant,\nand rebelled against my law."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "HOS-8:2",
        "verseRef": "HOS.8.2",
        "text": "They cry to me, ‘My God, we Israel acknowledge you!’"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "HOS-8:3",
        "verseRef": "HOS.8.3",
        "text": "Israel has cast off that which is good.\nThe enemy will pursue him."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "HOS-8:4",
        "verseRef": "HOS.8.4",
        "text": "They have set up kings, but not by me.\nThey have made princes, and I didn’t approve.\nOf their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols,\nthat they may be cut off."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "HOS-8:5",
        "verseRef": "HOS.8.5",
        "text": "Let Samaria throw out his calf idol!\nMy anger burns against them!\nHow long will it be until they are capable of purity?"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "HOS-8:6",
        "verseRef": "HOS.8.6",
        "text": "For this is even from Israel!\nThe workman made it, and it is no God;\nindeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "HOS-8:7",
        "verseRef": "HOS.8.7",
        "text": "For they sow the wind,\nand they will reap the whirlwind.\nHe has no standing grain.\nThe stalk will yield no head.\nIf it does yield, strangers will swallow it up."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "HOS-8:8",
        "verseRef": "HOS.8.8",
        "text": "Israel is swallowed up.\nNow they are among the nations like a worthless thing."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "HOS-8:9",
        "verseRef": "HOS.8.9",
        "text": "For they have gone up to Assyria,\nlike a wild donkey wandering alone.\nEphraim has hired lovers for himself."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "HOS-8:10",
        "verseRef": "HOS.8.10",
        "text": "But although they sold themselves among the nations,\nI will now gather them;\nand they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "HOS-8:11",
        "verseRef": "HOS.8.11",
        "text": "Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning,\nthey became for him altars for sinning."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "HOS-8:12",
        "verseRef": "HOS.8.12",
        "text": "I wrote for him the many things of my law;\nbut they were regarded as a strange thing."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "HOS-8:13",
        "verseRef": "HOS.8.13",
        "text": "As for the sacrifices of my offerings,\nthey sacrifice meat and eat it;\nBut Yahweh doesn’t accept them.\nNow he will remember their iniquity,\nand punish their sins.\nThey will return to Egypt."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "HOS-8:14",
        "verseRef": "HOS.8.14",
        "text": "For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;\nand Judah has multiplied fortified cities;\nbut I will send a fire on his cities,\nand it will devour its fortresses.”"
      }
    ]
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