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MOF HOS Chapter 10

HOS 10 ©

10A wanton vine was Israel,

and lavishly he bore;

the more his fruit increased,

the more increased his altars;

the better his land grew,

the better he made his sacred stones.

2Deceitful was their heart;

now they must suffer for it.

Their altars shall be broken down,

their sacred stones destroyed.

3They may say, at this day,

“But have we not a king?”

Ah, if men have no reverence for the Eternal,

what is the good of a king?

4Empty words, perjuries, treaties, what do they yield?

Punishing judgment like poisonous weeds

in a furrowed field.


5The citizens of Samaria bemoan

the Calf of Beth-Aven;

for it the worshippers groan,

the priestlings tremble

for its vanished glory.

6The Calf is carried to Assyria,

as tribute to the great Monarch–

to the disgrace of Ephraim,

till Israel is ashamed of his idol.


7Samaria’s king is torn from her,

tossed like a chip on the water.

8The idolatrous heights shall be destroyed

(the sin of Israel);

thorns and thistles grow upon their altars.

And men shall cry to the hills, “Cover us!”

and to the mountains, “Fall on us!”


9Ever since Gibeah, Israel has sinned–

when the dastards opposed me.

And shall not war catch them at Gibeah?

10In my wrath I will chastise them,

gathering nations to attack them,

in chastisement for their twofold offence.


11Ephraim was a heifer tamed,

loving to tread the threshing-floor;

but when I bent her fair neck under the yoke,

I forced Ephraim into harness,

Judah had to drag the plough,

Jacob had to harrow.


12Sow justice for yourselves,

and reap a harvest of God’s love;

break up your fallow ground,

by seeking the knowledge of the Eternal;

you must seek the Eternal,

till he comes to rain salvation on you.


13You have been ploughing evil,

and you reaped disaster;

you have had to eat the harvest of your lies.


14Because you relied on your chariots,

on your host of war-horses,

in your towns shall tumults rise,

and all your forts be crushed;

as Shalman crushed Beth-Arbel,

massacring mothers and their babes together,

15so will I deal with you, O house of Israel,

for your gross wickedness,

and in the storm the king of Israel

shall disappear.

HOS 10 ©

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