Hosea 10

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.