Hosea 9–10

^aRejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people:

For ^bthou hast gone a whoring from thy God,

Thou hast loved ^ca reward upon every cornfloor.

^2dThe floor and ^dthe winepress shall not feed them,

And ^dethe new wine shall ^eefail in her.

³They shall not dwell in ^fthe Lord’s land;

But ^gEphraim shall return to Egypt,

And ^hthey shall eat unclean things ⁱin Assyria.

^4kThey shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord,

^lNeither shall they be pleasing unto him:

Their sacrifices shall be unto them as ^mthe bread of mourners;

ⁿAll that eat thereof shall be polluted:

For their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.

⁵What will ye do in ^othe solemn day,

And in the day of ^othe feast of the Lord?

⁶For lo, they are gone because of destruction:

^gEgypt shall gather them up, ^pMemphis shall bury them:

The pleasant places for their silver, ^qnettles shall possess them:

^qThorns shall be in their tabernacles.

^7rThe days of visitation are come,

The days of ^srecompence are come;

^sIsrael shall know it:

^tThe prophet is a fool, ^tthe spiritual man is ^umad,

For the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

^8vThe watchman of Ephraim was with my God:

But ^tthe prophet is ^wa snare of a fowler in all his ways,

And hatred in the house of his God.

⁹They have ^xdeeply ^ycorrupted themselves, as ^zin the days of Gibeah:

Therefore ^ahe will remember their iniquity, ^ahe will visit their sins.

¹⁰I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;

I saw your fathers as ^bthe firstripe in the fig tree ^cat her first time:

But ^dthey went to ^eBaal-peor, and ^fseparated themselves unto ^gthat shame;

And ^htheir abominations were according as they loved.

¹¹As for Ephraim, ⁱtheir glory shall fly away like a bird,

^jFrom the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

^12kThough they bring up their children,

Yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left:

Yea, ^lwoe also to them ^mwhen I depart from them!

¹³Ephraim, as I saw ⁿTyrus, is planted in a pleasant place:

But Ephraim ^kshall bring forth his children to the murderer.

¹⁴Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give?

Give them ^oa miscarrying womb and ^odry breasts.

¹⁵All their wickedness is ^pin Gilgal, for there I hated them:

For the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house,

I will love them no more:

All ^qtheir princes are ^rrevolters.

¹⁶Ephraim is smitten, ^jstheir root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit:

Yea, ^kthough they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

¹⁷My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him:

And ^tthey shall be wanderers among the nations.

X.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.

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

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

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

Because we feared not the Lord;

What then should a king do to us?

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

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

⁵The 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.

⁶ⁿIt 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.

⁷As for ⁱSamaria, ^eher king is ^qcut off

As ^rthe foam upon the water.

⁸The 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.

⁹O 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.

^10xIt 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.

¹¹And 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.

^12dSow 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.

¹³ⁱYe 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.

¹⁴Therefore 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.

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

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

XI.