Hosea 8:13

¹³ They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; Jehovah hath no delight in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #191

191. Internal Meaning of Hosea, Chapter 8

1-7 They have perverted the church; they have turned its goods and truths into evils and falsities. (3)

8-11 By reasonings from the natural man they have put off everything of the church, (3)

12-14 and also everything of the worship of the church; therefore they cannot but perish. (3)

Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.