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Chapter 8

Corruption of Cult, Domestic and Foreign Politics

Put the trumpet to your lips!(A)
    One like an eagle[a] is over the house of the Lord!
Because they have violated my covenant,
    and rebelled against my law,
They cry out to me,
    “My God! We know you!”

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Footnotes

  1. 8:1 Eagle: perhaps an image for Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria, who overran the land of Israel in 733 B.C. (Jer 48:40; 49:22; Ez 17:3).