Hosea 8:1

God Will Raise Up the Assyrians to Attack Israel

8:1 Sound the alarm!

An eagle looms over the temple of the Lord!

For they have broken their covenant with me,

and have rebelled against my law.


tn Heb “A horn unto your gums!”; NAB “A trumpet to your lips!”

tn Or perhaps “A vulture.” Some identify the species indicated by the Hebrew term נֶשֶׁר (nesher) as the griffon vulture (cf. NEB, NRSV).

tn Heb “my covenant” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “the covenant I made with them.”