Hosea Chapter 8

The Israelites are threatened with destruction for their impiety and idolatry.

English (Douay-Rheims)

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.
2 They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee.
3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall pursue him.
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.
5 Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed?
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.
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 Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an unclean vessel.
9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.
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.
11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.
12 I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.
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.
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.

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 In gutture tuo sit tuba
quasi aquila super domum Domini,
pro eo quod transgressi sunt fœdus meum,
et legem meam prævaricati sunt.
2 Me invocabunt: Deus meus,
cognovimus te Israël.
3 Projecit Israël bonum:
inimicus persequetur eum.
4 Ipsi regnaverunt, et non ex me;
principes exstiterunt, et non cognovi:
argentum suum et aurum suum fecerunt sibi idola,
ut interirent.
5 Projectus est vitulus tuus, Samaria;
iratus est furor meus in eos.
Usquequo non poterunt emundari?
6 Quia ex Israël et ipse est:
artifex fecit illum, et non est deus;
quoniam in aranearum telas erit vitulus Samariæ.
7 Quia ventum seminabunt,
et turbinem metent:
culmus stans non est in eo;
germen non faciet farinam:
quod etsi fecerit, alieni comedent eam.
8 Devoratus est Israël;
nunc factus est in nationibus quasi vas immundum.
9 Quia ipsi ascenderunt ad Assur,
onager solitarius sibi;
Ephraim munera dederunt amatoribus.
10 Sed et cum mercede conduxerint nationes,
nunc congregabo eos,
et quiescent paulisper ab onere regis et principum.
11 Quia multiplicavit Ephraim altaria ad peccandum;
factæ sunt ei aræ in delictum.
12 Scribam ei multiplices leges meas,
quæ velut alienæ computatæ sunt.
13 Hostias offerent,
immolabunt carnes et comedent,
et Dominus non suscipiet eas:
nunc recordabitur iniquitatis eorum,
et visitabit peccata eorum:
ipsi in Ægyptum convertentur.
14 Et oblitus est Israël factoris sui,
et ædificavit delubra;
et Judas multiplicavit urbes munitas;
et mittam ignem in civitates ejus,
et devorabit ædes illius.

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