Hos 10
1
Israel is a vine with goodly 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.
2
They have divided their hearts; now shall they be utterly destroyed: he shall dig
down their altars, their pillars shall mourn.
3
Because now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord:
4
and what should a king do for us, speaking false professions as his words? he will
make a covenant: judgement shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field.
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 Gr. him, or it, i. e., the people them.
6
And having bound it for the Assyrians, they carried it away as presents to king Jarim:
Ephraim shall receive a gift, and Israel shall be ashamed Lit. in of his counsel.
7
Samaria has cast off her king as a twig on the surface of the water.
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.
9
From the time the hills existed Israel has sinned: there they stood: war waged against
the children of iniquity
10
to chastise them shall not overtake them on the hill, the nations shall be gathered
against them, when they are chastened for their two sins,
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 Juda in silence; Jacob shall prevail
against him.
12
Sow to yourselves for righteousness, gather in for the fruit of life: light you for
yourselves the light of knowledge; seek the Lord till the fruits of righteousness
come upon you.
13
Wherefore 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.
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,
15
thus will I do to you, O house of Israel, because of the unrighteousness of your sins.