Hosea 7:13

Israel Has Turned Away from the Lord

7:13 Woe to them! For they have fled from me!

Destruction to them! For they have rebelled against me!

I want to deliver ¹  them,

but they have lied to me.

Hosea 8:1

God Will Raise Up the Assyrians to Attack Israel

8:1 Sound the alarm! ² 

An eagle ³  looms over the temple of the Lord!

For they have broken their covenant with me, ⁴ 

and have rebelled against my law.

Hosea 11:3

11:3 Yet it was I who led ⁵  Ephraim,

I took them by the arm;

but they did not acknowledge

that I had healed them. ⁶ 

[7:13]  ¹ tn Heb “redeem” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NCV, TEV “save”; CEV “I would have rescued them.”

[8:1]  ² tn Heb “A horn unto your gums!”; NAB “A trumpet to your lips!”

[8:1]  ³ tn Or perhaps “A vulture.” Some identify the species indicated by the Hebrew term נֶשֶׁר (nesher) as the griffon vulture (cf. NEB, NRSV).

[8:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “my covenant” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “the covenant I made with them.”

[11:3]  ⁵ tn Or “taught Ephraim to walk” (so ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV). The verb תִרְגַּלְתִּי (tirgalti, “I taught [him] to walk, I led [him]”; Tiphil perfect 1st person common singular from רָגַל, ragal, “to walk”) is an unusual verb stem: the Tiphil (properly Taphel) is attested three times in Biblical Hebrew (Hos 11:3; Jer 12:5; 22:15) and once in Biblical Aramaic (Ezra 4:7; see GKC 153 §55.h).

[11:3]  ⁶ tn Or “that it was I who had healed them” (NIV, NLT similar).