<p>10:1 Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself:
according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars;
according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.</p>
<p>10:2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall
break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.</p>
<p>10:3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not
the LORD; what then should a king do to us? 10:4 They have spoken
words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth
up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.</p>
<p>10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of
Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests
thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is
departed from it.</p>
<p>10:6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king
Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his
own counsel.</p>
<p>10:7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.</p>
<p>10:8 The high places also 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.</p>
<p>10:9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they
stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not
overtake them.</p>
<p>10:10 It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people
shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in
their two furrows.</p>
<p>10:11 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread
out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make
Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.</p>
<p>10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your
fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain
righteousness upon you.</p>
<p>10:13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have
eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the
multitude of thy mighty men.</p>
<p>10:14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy
fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day
of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.</p>
<p>10:15 So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in
a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.</p>
<p>11:1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out
of Egypt.</p>
<p>11:2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto
Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.</p>
<p>11:3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they
knew not that I healed them.</p>
<p>11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to
them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat
unto them.</p>
<p>11:5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian
shall be his king, because they refused to return.</p>
<p>11:6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his
branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.</p>
<p>11:7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called
them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.</p>
<p>11:8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee,
Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as
Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled
together.</p>
<p>11:9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not
return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in
the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.</p>
<p>11:10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when
he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.</p>
<p>11:11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of
the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the
LORD.</p>
<p>11:12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel
with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the
saints.</p>
<p>12:1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he
daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with
the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.</p>
<p>12:2 The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish
Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he
recompense him.</p>
<p>12:3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength
he had power with God: 12:4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and
prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in
Bethel, and there he spake with us; 12:5 Even the LORD God of hosts;
the LORD is his memorial.</p>
<p>12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment and wait
on thy God continually.</p>
<p>12:7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he
loveth to oppress.</p>
<p>12:8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out
substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that
were sin.</p>
<p>12:9 And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet
make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.</p>
<p>12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied
visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.</p>
<p>12:11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they
sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the
furrows of the fields.</p>
<p>12:12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for
a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.</p>
<p>12:13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a
prophet was he preserved.</p>
<p>12:14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he
leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto
him.</p>
<p>13:1 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but
when he offended in Baal, he died.</p>
<p>13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images
of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all
of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that
sacrifice kiss the calves.</p>
<p>13:3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew
that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out
of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.</p>
<p>13:4 Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt
know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.</p>
<p>13:5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.</p>
<p>13:6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were
filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.</p>
<p>13:7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way
will I observe them: 13:8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved
of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I
devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.</p>
<p>13:9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.</p>
<p>13:10 I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all
thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and
princes? 13:11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in
my wrath.</p>
<p>13:12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.</p>
<p>13:13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an
unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking
forth of children.</p>
<p>13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem
them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be
thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.</p>
<p>13:15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall
come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his
spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall
spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.</p>
<p>13:16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her
God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in
pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.</p>
<p>14:1 O israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by
thine iniquity.</p>
<p>14:2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take
away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the
calves of our lips.</p>
<p>14:3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither
will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in
thee the fatherless findeth mercy.</p>
<p>14:4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine
anger is turned away from him.</p>
<p>14:5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and
cast forth his roots as Lebanon.</p>
<p>14:6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive
tree, and his smell as Lebanon.</p>
<p>14:7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive
as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the
wine of Lebanon.</p>
<p>14:8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have
heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is
thy fruit found.</p>
<p>14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and
he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just
shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.</p>
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