10:1 1 Against Israel and his idols. 14 His destruction for the same. Israel is a empty vine, yet hath it brought forth fruit unto itself, and according to the multitude of the fruit thereof he hath increased the altars: according to the goodness of their land they have made fair images.
10:2 Their heart is divided: now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars; he shall destroy their images.
10:3 For now they shall say, We have no King because we feared not the Lord: and what should a King do to us?
10:4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment groweth as wormwood in the furrows of the field.
10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calf of Beth Aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the Chemarims thereof, that rejoiced on it for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
10:6 It shall be also brought to Assyria, for a present unto king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
10:7 Of Samaria, the king thereof is destroyed, as the foam upon the water.
10:8 The high places also of Aven shall be destroyed, even the sin of Israel: the thorn and the thistle shall grow upon their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall upon us.
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 touch them.
10:10 It is my desire that I should chastise them, and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall gather themselves in their two furrows.
10:11 And Ephraim is as a heifer used to delight in threshing: but I will pass by her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride: Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness: reap after the measure of mercy: break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
10:13 But you have plowed wickedness: ye have reaped iniquity: you have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thine own ways, and in the multitude of thy strong men,
10:14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy munitions shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle: the mother with the children was dashed in pieces.
10:15 So shall Bethel do unto you, because of your malicious wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel be destroyed.
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