Hosea:10

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* 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 . * They have divided their hearts ; now shall they be utterly destroyed : he shall dig down their altars , their pillars shall mourn . * Because now they shall say , We have no king , because we feared not the Lord : * 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 . * 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 (note :)Gr . him , or it , i . e ., the people (:note ) them . * 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 (note :)Lit . in (:note ) of his counsel . * Samaria has cast off her king as a twig on the surface of the water . * 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 . * From the time the hills existed Israel has sinned : there they stood : war waged against the children of iniquity * 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 , * 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 . * Sow to yourselves for righteousness , gather in for the fruit of life : light ye for yourselves the light of knowledge ; seek the Lord till the fruits of righteousness come upon you . * Wherefore have ye passed over ungodliness in silence , and reaped the sins of it ? ye have eaten false fruit ; for thou has trusted in thy sins , in the abundance of thy power . * Therefore shall destruction rise up among thy people , and all thy 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 , * thus will I do to you , O house of Israel , because of the unrighteousness of your sins .

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