Hosea 10

CHAPTER 10

You Have Sinned, O Israel

¹Israel is a ¹luxuriant ^avine;

He produces fruit for himself.

The more abundant his fruit,

The more altars he ^babounded;

The better his land,

The better ²he made the sacred ^cpillars.

²Their heart is ^1afaithless;

Now they must bear their ^bguilt.

²Yahweh will ^cbreak down their altars

And destroy their sacred pillars.

³Surely now they will say, “We have ^ano king,

For we do not fear Yahweh.

As for the king, what can he do for us?”

⁴They speak mere words;

¹With ^aworthless oaths they cut covenants;

And ^bjudgment flourishes like gall in the furrows of the field.

⁵The dweller of Samaria will fear

For the ^1acalf of ^bBeth-aven.

Indeed, its people will mourn for it,

And its ^cidolatrous priests ²will cry out over it,

Over its ^dglory, since it has gone into exile from them.

⁶The thing itself will be carried to ^aAssyria

As tribute to ^1bKing Jareb;

Ephraim will ^creceive shame,

And Israel will be ashamed of its ^down counsel.

⁷Samaria will be ^aruined with her king

Like a stick on the surface of the water.

⁸Also the ^ahigh places of Aven, the ^bsin of Israel, will be ¹eradicated;

^cThorn and thistle will grow on their altars;

Then they will ^dsay to the mountains,

“Cover us!” And to the hills, “Fall on us!”

⁹From the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel;

There they stand!

Will not the battle against the sons of injustice overtake them in Gibeah?

¹⁰When it is My ^adesire, I will ^1bchastise them;

And ^cthe peoples will be gathered against them

When they are bound for their double guilt.

The Trained Heifer

¹¹And Ephraim is a trained ^aheifer that loves to thresh,

But I will ^bcome over her fair neck with a yoke;

I will harness Ephraim;

Judah will plow; Jacob will harrow for himself.

^12aSow with a view to righteousness,

Reap in accordance with lovingkindness;

^bBreak up your fallow ground,

Indeed, it is time to ^cseek Yahweh

Until He ^dcomes and ^1erains righteousness on you.

¹³You have ^aplowed wickedness; you have reaped injustice;

You have eaten the fruit of ^bdeception.

Because you have trusted in your way, in your ^cabundant warriors,

¹⁴Therefore a rumbling will arise among your people,

And all your ^afortifications will be destroyed,

As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle,

When ^bmothers were dashed in pieces with their children.

¹⁵Thus it will be done to you at Bethel because of your evil of evils.

At dawn the king of Israel will be completely ruined.