Hosea 10
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.
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
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 zan 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,
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.