Retribution for Israel’s Sin
10 Israel is a luxuriant (A)vine;
He produces fruit for himself.
The more his fruit,
The more altars he (B)made;
The richer his land,
The better he made the (C)memorial stones.
2 Their heart is (D)deceitful;
Now they must suffer for their (E)guilt.
The Lord will (F)break down their altars
And destroy their memorial stones.
3 Certainly now they will say, “We have (G)no king,
For we do not revere the Lord.
As for the king, what can he do for us?”
4 They speak mere words,
With (H)worthless oaths they make covenants;
And (I)judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
5 The inhabitants of Samaria will fear
For the (J)calf of (K)Beth-aven.
Indeed, its people will mourn for it,
And its (L)idolatrous priests will cry out over it,
Over its (M)glory, since it has left it.
6 The thing itself will be brought to (N)Assyria
As a gift of tribute to (O)King Jareb;
Ephraim will be (P)seized with shame,
And Israel will be ashamed of its (Q)own plan.
7 Samaria will be (R)destroyed with her king,
Like a twig on the surface of the water.
8 Also the (S)high places of Aven, the (T)sin of Israel, will be destroyed;
(U)Thorns and thistles will grow on their altars;
Then they will (V)say to the mountains,
“Cover us!” And to the hills, “Fall on us!”
9 Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, Israel;
There they stand!
Will the battle against the sons of injustice not overtake them in Gibeah?
10 When it is My (W)desire, I will (X)discipline them;
And (Y)the peoples will be gathered against them
When they are bound for their double guilt.
11 Ephraim is a trained (Z)heifer that loves to thresh,
And I (AA)passed over her lovely neck;
I will harness Ephraim,
Judah will plow, Jacob will harrow for himself.
12 (AB)Sow for yourselves, with a view to righteousness;
Harvest in accordance with kindness.
(AC)Break up your uncultivated ground,
For it is time to (AD)seek the Lord
Until He (AE)comes and (AF)rains righteousness on you.
13 You have (AG)plowed wickedness, you have harvested injustice,
You have eaten the fruit of (AH)lies.
Because you have trusted in your way, in your (AI)many warriors,
14 An uproar will arise among your people,
And all your (AJ)fortresses will be destroyed,
As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle,
When (AK)mothers were slaughtered with their children.
15 So it will be done to you at Bethel because of your great wickedness.
At dawn the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.
Footnotes
- Hosea 10:1
- Hosea 10:1
- Hosea 10:2
- Hosea 10:2
- Hosea 10:4
- Hosea 10:5
- Hosea 10:5
- Hosea 10:6
- Hosea 10:6
- Hosea 10:10
- Hosea 10:11
- Hosea 10:11
- Hosea 10:12
- Hosea 10:14
Cross references
- Hosea 10:1 : Is 5:1-7; Ezek 15:1-6
- Hosea 10:1 : Jer 2:28; Hos 8:11; 12:11
- Hosea 10:1 : 1 Kin 14:23; Hos 3:4
- Hosea 10:2 : 1 Kin 18:21; Zeph 1:5
- Hosea 10:2 : Hos 13:16
- Hosea 10:2 : Hos 10:8; Mic 5:13
- Hosea 10:3 : Ps 12:4; Is 5:19
- Hosea 10:4 : Ezek 17:13-19; Hos 4:2
- Hosea 10:4 : Deut 31:16, 17; 2 Kin 17:3, 4; Amos 5:7
- Hosea 10:5 : Hos 8:5, 6
- Hosea 10:5 : Hos 4:15; 5:8
- Hosea 10:5 : 2 Kin 23:5
- Hosea 10:5 : Hos 9:11
- Hosea 10:6 : Hos 11:5
- Hosea 10:6 : Hos 5:13
- Hosea 10:6 : Hos 4:7
- Hosea 10:6 : Is 30:3; Jer 7:24
- Hosea 10:7 : Hos 13:11
- Hosea 10:8 : Hos 4:13
- Hosea 10:8 : 1 Kin 12:28-30; 13:34
- Hosea 10:8 : Is 32:13; Hos 9:6; 10:2
- Hosea 10:8 : Is 2:19; Luke 23:30; Rev 6:16
- Hosea 10:10 : Job 23:13; Ezek 5:13
- Hosea 10:10 : Hos 4:9
- Hosea 10:10 : Jer 16:16
- Hosea 10:11 : Jer 50:11; Hos 4:16; Mic 4:13
- Hosea 10:11 : Jer 28:14
- Hosea 10:12 : Prov 11:18
- Hosea 10:12 : Jer 4:3
- Hosea 10:12 : Hos 12:6
- Hosea 10:12 : Hos 6:3
- Hosea 10:12 : Is 44:3; 45:8
- Hosea 10:13 : Job 4:8; Prov 22:8; Gal 6:7, 8
- Hosea 10:13 : Hos 4:2; 7:3; 11:12
- Hosea 10:13 : Ps 33:16
- Hosea 10:14 : Is 17:3
- Hosea 10:14 : Hos 13:16
