Hosea:9:1-10:15
noyes@Hosea:9:1 @ Rejoice not, O Israel, Exult not, like the nations! For thou committest fornication, forsaking thy God! Thou lovest hire on every cornfloor.
noyes@Hosea:9:2 @ The floor and the vat shall not feed them, And the new wine shall deceive them.
noyes@Hosea:9:3 @ They shall not dwell in the land of Jehovah; To Egypt shall Ephraim go back, And eat unclean things in Assyria.
noyes@Hosea:9:4 @ They shall pour out no offerings of wine to Jehovah, Nor shall their sacrifices please him; They shall be to them as the bread of mourners; All that eat thereof shall be polluted. Their bread shall be for their own hunger; It shall not come into the house of Jehovah.
noyes@Hosea:9:5 @ What will ye do in the festal day, In the day of the feast of Jehovah?
noyes@Hosea:9:6 @ For, behold, they go forth from a wasted land; Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them; The precious places of their silver, Nettles shall possess them; Thorns shall spring up in their habitations.
noyes@Hosea:9:7 @ The days of visitation are come; The days of retribution are come Israel shall know that the prophet was foolish, That the man of the spirit was mad For the greatness of thy iniquity, and thy great hatred.
noyes@Hosea:9:8 @ If Ephraim seek an answer from my God, The prophet is as the snare of the fowler in all his ways, A net in the house of his God.
noyes@Hosea:9:9 @ They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their iniquity; He will requite their sins.
noyes@Hosea:9:10 @ I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness; As the early fruit on the figtree, at its first time of bearing, I saw your fathers. But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to shame, And had abominable idols according to their love.
noyes@Hosea:9:11 @ The glory of Ephraim shall fly away as a bird; They shall not bring forth, nor bear in the womb, nor conceive;
noyes@Hosea:9:12 @ Yea, if they bring up children, I will utterly bereave them; Yea, woe to them when I depart from them!
noyes@Hosea:9:13 @ I have seen Ephraim planted, like Tyre, in a rich pasture, Yet shall Ephraim bring out his children to the murderer.
noyes@Hosea:9:14 @ Give them, O Jehovah! What wilt thou give them? Give them a miscarrying womb, And dry breasts!
noyes@Hosea:9:15 @ All their wickedness is in Gilgal; Yea, there have I hated them for the wickedness of their doings; I will drive them from my house; I will love them no more; All their princes are revolters.
noyes@Hosea:9:16 @ Ephraim is smitten; Their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit; Yea, though they should beget children, I will destroy the beloved fruit of the womb.
noyes@Hosea:9:17 @ My God shall cast them away, Because they have not hearkened to him, And they shall be wanderers among the nations.
noyes@Hosea:10:1 @ Israel is a luxuriant vine, That bringeth forth fruit; But according to the abundance of his fruit hath he abounded in altars; According to the goodness of his land hath he made goodly images.
noyes@Hosea:10:2 @ Their heart is divided; now shall they suffer for it; He will break down their altars, And destroy their images.
noyes@Hosea:10:3 @ For soon shall they say, We have no king, Because we fear not Jehovah; What can a king do for us?
noyes@Hosea:10:4 @ They utter empty words, Swearing falsely, making covenants, And now judgment springeth up, as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
noyes@Hosea:10:5 @ For the calf of Bethaven shall the inhabitants of Samaria be in fear; Yea, its people shall grieve for it, And its priests shall tremble for it, Because its glory has departed from it.
noyes@Hosea:10:6 @ It shall be carried to Assyria, As a present to the hostile king. Ephraim shall be covered with confusion, And Israel shall be ashamed of his doings,
noyes@Hosea:10:7 @ Samaria shall be brought to destruction; Her king shall be as a twig upon the waters.
noyes@Hosea:10:8 @ The high places 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!
noyes@Hosea:10:9 @ More than in the days of Gibeah hast thou sinned, O Israel! There they stood; The battle in Gibeah against the sons of iniquity did not overtake them.
noyes@Hosea:10:10 @ Now will I chastise them according to my pleasure, And the nations shall be gathered together against them, When I shall bind them for their two iniquities.
noyes@Hosea:10:11 @ Ephraim is a trained heifer, that loveth to tread out the corn; But I will lay the yoke upon her fair neck; I will cause Ephraim to draw, Judah shall plough, Jacob shall harrow.
noyes@Hosea:10:12 @ Sow for yourselves to righteousness, and ye shall reap according to your piety; Break up your fallow ground; For it is a time to seek Jehovah, Till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
noyes@Hosea:10:13 @ Ye plough wickedness, ye shall reap injustice; Ye shall eat the fruit of falsehood. Because thou trustest in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men,
noyes@Hosea:10:14 @ There shall arise a tumult among thy people, And all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, As Shalman destroyed Betharbel in the day of battle, When the mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
noyes@Hosea:10:15 @ Such things shall Bethel bring upon you Because of your great wickedness. In the morning shall the king of Israel be destroyed.
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