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title: Hosea 10
slug: kjv/hosea-10
createdAt: 2024-08-25T02:51:41.966Z
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**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.

**2 **Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

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

**4 **They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

**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.

**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.

**7 ***As for* Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

**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.

**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.

**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.

**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.

**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.

**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.

**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.

**15 **So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.