Hosea 8:1
Put a trumpet to your lips! An eagle swoops over the house of the Lord because they have broken my agreement and rebelled against my law.
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2Israel calls out to me, “Our God, we know you!”
Cross References
2 Kings 18:27But the army general replied, “Did my master only send me to say these things to your master and to you, and not to the people sitting on the wall? They too, just like you, are going to have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine!”
Isaiah 24:5The earth is polluted by its people; they have flouted God's laws, violated his regulations, and broken the eternal agreement with him.
Jeremiah 4:5Announce this warning throughout Judah and Jerusalem! Tell them: Blow the trumpet everywhere in the country! Shout out, “Hurry! Let's run to the fortified towns for protection!”
Jeremiah 6:1Run and hide, descendants of Benjamin, get out of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa; light a signal fire in Beth-haccherem, for disaster and terrible destruction is arriving from the north.
Jeremiah 48:40This is what the Lord says: Watch as an enemy like an eagle swoops down, spreading its wings as it attacks Moab.
Ezekiel 7:14Even though the trumpet call to arms has sounded, even though all the preparations have been made, no one is ready to fight, because I am angry with everyone.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 8:1
This chapter, as that before, divides itself into the sins and punishments of Israel; every verse almost declares both, and all to bring them to repentance. When they saw the malignant nature of their sin, in the descriptions of that, they could not but be convinced now much it was their duty to repent of what was so bad in itself; and when they saw the mischievous consequences of their sin, in the predictions of them, they could not but see how much it was their interest to repent for the preventing of them. I.… Read the whole commentary →