AB - Hosea - 10

10:1  Israel is a vine with choice branches, her fruit is abundant: according to the multitude of her fruits she has multiplied her altars; according to the wealth of his land, he has set up pillars.

10:2  They have divided their hearts; now shall they be utterly destroyed: he shall dig down their altars, their pillars shall mourn.

10:3  Because now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord.

10:4  And what should a king do for us, speaking false professions as his words? He will make a covenant: judgment shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field.

10:5  The inhabitants of Samaria shall dwell near the calf of the house of On; for the people of it mourned for it. And as they provoked Him, they shall rejoice at His glory, because He has departed from them.

10:6  And having bound it for the Assyrians, they carried it away as presents to King Jareb. Ephraim shall receive a gift, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

10:7  Samaria has cast off her king as a twig on the surface of the water.

10:8  And the altars of On, the sins of Israel shall be taken away. Thorns and thistles shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

10:9  From the time the hills existed Israel has sinned. There they stood. War waged against the children of iniquity,

10:10  to chastise them. The nations shall be gathered against them, when they are chastened for their two sins,

10:11  Ephraim is a heifer taught to love victory, but I will come upon the fairest part of her neck: I will Mount Ephraim; I will pass over Judah in silence; Jacob shall prevail against him.

10:12  Sow to yourselves for righteousness, gather in for the fruit of life: light for yourselves the light of knowledge; seek the Lord till the fruits of righteousness come upon you.

10:13  For have you passed over ungodliness in silence, and reaped the sins of it? You have eaten false fruit; for you has trusted in your sins, in the abundance of your power.

10:14  Therefore shall destruction rise up among your people, and all your strong places shall be ruined. As a prince Solomon departed out of the house of Jeroboam, in the days of battle they dashed the mother to the ground upon the children,

10:15  thus will I do to you, O house of Israel, because of the unrighteousness of your sins.