Text -- Hosea 8:1-3 (NET)

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. 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.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Hos 8:1

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.”