Hosea 10:1–8

*Israel is ||an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit aunto himself:

According to the multitude of his fruit bhe hath increased the altars;

According to the goodness of his land cthey have made goodly †images.

2  ||Their heart is divided; now shall they be dfound faulty:

He shall †break down their altars, he shall spoil their †images.

3  For now they shall say, eWe have no king,

Because we feared not the Lord;

What then should a king do to us?

4  They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant:

Thus fjudgment springeth up as ghemlock hin the furrows of the field.

5  The inhabitants of iSamaria jshall fear because of kthe calves of lBeth-aven:

For the people thereof shall mourn over it,

And ||the priests thereof that rejoiced on it,

For mthe glory thereof, because mit is departed from it.

6  nIt shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to oking Jareb:

Ephraim shall receive shame,

And Israel jshall be ashamed of phis own counsel.

7  As for iSamaria, eher king is qcut off

As rthe foam upon †the water.

8  The high places also of lAven, sthe sin of Israel, shall be destroyed:

tThe thorn and tthe thistle shall come up on their altars;

And uthey shall say to the mountains, Cover us;

And to the hills, Fall on us.