MKJV - Hosea - 10

10:1  Israel is an luxuriant vine; he brings out fruit to himself. According to the multitude of his fruit, he has increased the altars. They have made beautiful images according to the goodness of his land.

10:2  Their heart is divided; now they shall be guilty. He shall break down their altars, and He shall spoil their images.

10:3  For now they shall say, We have no king because we did not fear the LORD; what then should a king do to us?

10:4  They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. So judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.

10:5  Because of the calves of Beth-aven, the people of Samaria shall dread. For its people shall mourn over it, and its priest rejoiced on it for its glory, because it has departed from it.

10:6  It shall also be carried to Assyria for a present to king Jareb. Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

10:7  As for Samaria, her king is cut off as a bough on the water.

10:8  Also the high places 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.

10:9  O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they stood; the battle against the sons of iniquity did not overtake them in Gibeah.

10:10  When I desire, I shall bind them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves to their two perversities.

10:11  And Ephraim is like a trained heifer, trying to tread out. But I passed over on the goodness of her neck. I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

10:12  Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground. For it is time to seek the LORD, until He comes and rains righteousness on you.

10:13  You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies, because you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

10:14  And an uproar shall arise among your peoples, and all your fortresses shall be spoiled, as the ruin of Beth-arbel by Shalman in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces on her sons.

10:15  So He does to you, Bethel, because of your great evil. In a morning the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off.