10:1 Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased the more altars he built; as his country improved he improved his pillars.
10:2 Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The Lord will break down their altars, and destroy their pillars.
10:3 For now they will say: “We have no king, for we fear not the Lord, and a king, what could he do for us?”
10:4 They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
10:5 The inhabitants of Samar′ia tremble for the calf of Beth-a′ven. Its people shall mourn for it, and its idolatrous priests shall wail over it, over its glory which has departed from it.
10:6 Yea, the thing itself shall be carried to Assyria, as tribute to the great king. E′phraim shall be put to shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.
10:7 Samar′ia’s king shall perish, like a chip on the face of the waters.
10:8 The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall upon us.
10:9 From the days of Gib′e-ah, you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not war overtake them in Gib′e-ah?
10:10 I will come against the wayward people to chastise them; and nations shall be gathered against them when they are chastised for their double iniquity.
10:11 E′phraim was a trained heifer that loved to thresh, and I spared her fair neck; but I will put E′phraim to the yoke, Judah must plow, Jacob must harrow for himself.
10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain salvation upon you.
10:13 You have plowed iniquity, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your chariots and in the multitude of your warriors,
10:14 therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-ar′bel on the day of battle; mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
10:15 Thus it shall be done to you, O house of Israel, because of your great wickedness. In the storm the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off.
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