lesserot Hosea:9:1-10:15
lesserot@Hosea:9:1 @ Rejoice not, O Israel, for gladness, as other people; for thou art gone astray, unfaithful to thy God: thou hast loved the wages of sin upon every cornfilled threshingfloor.
lesserot@Hosea:9:2 @ The threshingfloor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall deceive them.
lesserot@Hosea:9:3 @ They shall not dwell in the land of the Lord; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria will they eat unclean things.
lesserot@Hosea:9:4 @ They shall not pour out wine to the Lord, and shall not be pleasing unto him; their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for this their food can only be for themselves, it shall not come into the house of the Lord.
lesserot@Hosea:9:5 @ What will ye do on the day of the appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?
lesserot@Hosea:9:6 @ For, lo, they are gone forth because of the desolation: Egypt will gather them up, Moph will bury them: the pleasant chambers for their silver,these shall nettles take possession of; thorns shall in their tents.
lesserot@Hosea:9:7 @ Come are the days of the visitation, come are the days of thy recompense; this shall Israel experience: a fool was the prophet, mad the inspired man, because of the greatness of thy iniquity, and the great hatefulness.
lesserot@Hosea:9:8 @ The watchman of Ephraim with my God, the prophet, was a snare of the fowler on all his ways, a hateful thing in the house of his god.
lesserot@Hosea:9:9 @ They are deeply corrupt, as in the days of Gibah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
lesserot@Hosea:9:10 @ Like grapes in the wilderness had I found Israel; as the first ripe fruit on the figtree in the first of the season had I seen your fathers; but they too went to Baalpeor: and devoted themselves unto that shameful idol, and became abominations as those they loved.
lesserot@Hosea:9:11 @ As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there is no more birth, and no pregnancy, and no conception.
lesserot@Hosea:9:12 @ But though they were to bring up their children, yet would I bereave them, that there should be no man: yea, woe also to themselves, when I depart from them!
lesserot@Hosea:9:13 @ Ephraim, as I have seen him like Tyre, planted in a pleasant meadow,yet this Ephraim shall lead forth to the murderer his children.
lesserot@Hosea:9:14 @ Give them, O Lord, what thou wilt give! give them a miscarrying womb and driedup breasts.
lesserot@Hosea:9:15 @ All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hate them; for the wickedness of their doings will I drive them out of my house: I will love them no farther; all their princes are rebels.
lesserot@Hosea:9:16 @ Smitten is Ephraim, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they should bring forth, yet would I slay the beloved fruit of their body.
lesserot@Hosea:9:17 @ My God will reject them, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
lesserot@Hosea:10:1 @ An emptied vine is Israel; how should he bring forth fruit for himself? the more numerous was his fruit the more he increased the altars; the more prosperous was his land, the more they made goodly statues.
lesserot@Hosea:10:2 @ Their heart is divided; now shall they bear their guilt: this will break down their altars, will devastate their statues.
lesserot@Hosea:10:3 @ For now will they say, We have no king; because we fear not the Lord: and the kingwhat can he do for us?
lesserot@Hosea:10:4 @ They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: therefore springeth up the punishment as poison in the furrows of the field.
lesserot@Hosea:10:5 @ For the calves of Bethaven are terrified the inhabitants of Samaria: yea, the people thereof mourn over them, and also its false priests that rejoiced over them, for its glory, because it is departed from it.
lesserot@Hosea:10:6 @ Also this shall be carried unto Assyria for a present to the contentious king: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed because of his own counsel.
lesserot@Hosea:10:7 @ As for Samaria, her king shall vanish like the foam upon the surface of the water.
lesserot@Hosea:10:8 @ And destroyed shall be the highplaces of Aven, 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.
lesserot@Hosea:10:9 @ More than in the days of Gibah hast thou sinned, O Israel! there they stood; and the battle in Gibah against the children of wickedness did not overtake them.
lesserot@Hosea:10:10 @ after my desire will I chastise them: and the people shall be gathered against them, when they harness them in their two furrows.
lesserot@Hosea:10:11 @ And Ephraim is as a welltaught heifer that loveth to tread out the corn; and I passed over her fair neck: now will I make Ephraim draw the wagon, Judah shall plough, and Jacob shall harrow the field for the enemy.
lesserot@Hosea:10:12 @ Sow then for yourselves after righteousness, that you may reap of kindness; cultivate your fallow field; for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness down for you.
lesserot@Hosea:10:13 @ ye have ploughed wickedness, iniquity have ye reaped, ye have eaten the fruit of lies; because thou didst trust in thy own way, in the multitude of thy mighty men:
lesserot@Hosea:10:14 @ Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be wasted, as Shalman devastated Betharbel on the day of battle, the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
lesserot@Hosea:10:15 @ The like of this doth Bethel procure unto you because of your great wickedness: in the early morning shall utterly pass away the king of Israel.
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