Discovery BoxHosea 8:1 
ContextGod Will Raise Up the Assyrians to Attack Israel
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.
Hosea 8:12
Context8:12 I spelled out my law for him in great detail,
but they regard it as something totally unknown 4 to them!
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.”
4 tn Heb “foreign” or “alien”; NASB, NRSV “as a strange thing.”
