“Set the trumpet
To your lips!
A vulture is over
The house of Yahweh.
They have broken
My covenant.
They have transgressed
My law.
Israel cries to me!
‘My God!
We!
Israel!
Know you!’
Israel has spurned
The good.
The enemy
Shall pursue him.”
Yahweh, via Hosea, told the Israelites to sound the alarm with a trumpet. The vulture or the Assyrian army was coming to the house of Yahweh. These Israelites had broken his covenant. They had transgressed his law. Yet they came crying to him, since they knew Yahweh. However, it was too late. They knew that they had turned away from the good Yahweh. Now their enemy, the Assyrians, would pursue them.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 