8:1 Sound the alarm! 1
An eagle 2 looms over the temple of the Lord!
For they have broken their covenant with me, 3
and have rebelled against my law.
8:2 Israel cries out to me,
“My God, we acknowledge you!”
8:3 But Israel has rejected what is morally good;
so an enemy will pursue him.
1 tn Heb “A horn unto your gums!”; NAB “A trumpet to your lips!”
2 tn Or perhaps “A vulture.” Some identify the species indicated by the Hebrew term נֶשֶׁר (nesher) as the griffon vulture (cf. NEB, NRSV).
3 tn Heb “my covenant” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “the covenant I made with them.”