Hosea 10:1–15

* 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.

9  O Israel, thou hast sinned vfrom the days of Gibeah: there they stood:

wThe battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

10  xIt is in my desire that I should chastise them;

And ythe people shall be gathered against them,

* When they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.

11  And Ephraim is as za heifer that is taught, and loveth ato tread out the corn;

But zI passed over upon * her fair neck:

I will make Ephraim to ride;

Judah shall plow,

And Jacob shall cbreak his clods.

12  dSow to yourselves in righteousness,

dReap ein mercy;

fBreak up your gfallow ground:

For it is time to seek the Lord,

Till he come and hrain righteousness upon you.

13  iYe have plowed wickedness, diye have reaped iniquity;

Ye have eaten the fruit of lies:

Because thou didst trust in thy way,

In the multitude of thy mighty men.

14  Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people,

And jall thy fortresses kshall be spoiled,

As lShalman kspoiled mBeth-arbel in the day of battle:

nThe mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.

15  So shall oBeth-el do unto you because of * your great wickedness;

In a morning pshall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

XI.