Hosea 10
10:1Israel is a grapevine having good vine branches her fruit prospering. According to the multitude of her fruits he multiplied the altars. According to the good things of his land he built monuments.
10:2They portioned their hearts, now they shall be obliterated; he shall raze their altars, their monuments shall languish.
10:3Because now they shall say, There is no king for us, for we feared not the lord; but the king, what shall he do to us?
10:4Speaking words, lying excuses; he shall ordain a covenant. Judgment shall rise as wild grass upon an uncultivated field.
10:5To the calf of the house of On the ones dwelling Samaria shall sojourn; for his people mourned for it; and as they greatly embittered him, they shall rejoice over his glory, for he was displaced from him.
10:6And having tied it for Assyria, they carried away tribute to king Jareb by a gift; Ephraim shall receive shame; Israel shall be ashamed in his counsel.
10:7Samaria threw off her king as a stick upon the face of the water.
10:8And the shrines of On shall be lifted away, even the sins of Israel. Thorn-bushes and thistles shall ascend upon their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us! and to the hills, Fall upon us!
10:9From of which time the hills existed Israel sinned; there they stood. No way should it overtake them in the hill -- war came upon the children of iniquity.
10:10To correct them -- and peoples shall be brought together against them in their being corrected for their two iniquities.
10:11Ephraim -- a heifer being taught, loving altercation; but I shall come upon the best of her neck; I will conduct Ephraim; I will pass silently over Judah; Jacob shall grow in strength against him.
10:12Sow to yourselves for righteousness! Gather the vintage for the fruit of life! Light for yourselves the light of knowledge! Inquire of the lord until the offspring of righteousness comes to you!
10:13Why did you pass over impiety in silence, and gathered the vintage of her iniquity? You ate false fruit, for you hoped in your chariots, in the abundance of your power.
10:14And destruction shall rise up among your people, and all your places being walled around shall be undone. As the ruler Shalman departed out of the house of Jeroboam in the days of battle, they dashed the mother upon children;
10:15so I will do to you, O house of Israel, in front of your evils.