HO-10:1  Israel [is] an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto

himself:

according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the

altars;

according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly

images.

HO-10:2  Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty:

he shall

break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

HO-10:3  For now they shall say, We have no king, because we

feared not the

LORD; what then should a king do to us?

HO-10:4  They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a

covenant: thus

judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

HO-10:5  The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the

calves of

Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the

priests thereof

[that] rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is

departed from it.

HO-10:6  It shall be also carried unto Assyria [for] a present

to king Jareb:

Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his

own counsel.

HO-10:7  [As for] Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon

the water.

HO-10:8  The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall

be destroyed:

the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and

they shall say to

the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

HO-10:9  O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah:

there they stood:

the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not

overtake them.

HO-10:10  [It is] in my desire that I should chastise them; and

the people

shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves

in their two

furrows.

HO-10:11  And Ephraim [is as] an heifer [that is] taught, [and]

loveth to

tread out [the corn]; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I

will make

Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, [and] Jacob shall break his

clods.

HO-10:12  Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy;

break up your

fallow ground: for [it is] time to seek the LORD, till he come

and rain

righteousness upon you.

HO-10:13  Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye

have eaten

the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the

multitude of

thy mighty men.

HO-10:14  Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and

all thy

fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the

day of

battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon [her] children.

HO-10:15  So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great

wickedness: in a

morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

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