Hosea 10 Israel is a voiding vine; his fruit is equal to him. According to the abundance of fruit, he increases that for the altars. According to the good of his land, they make goodly monuments."

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Israel is a voiding vine; his fruit is equal to him. According to the abundance of fruit, he increases that for the altars. According to the good of his land, they make goodly monuments." ² To these they apportion their heart; now they shall be guilty. He shall denude their altars; He shall devastate their monuments. ³ For now they will say, we have no king, for we do not fear Yahweh. And the king--what will he do for us? ⁴ They speak words, to invoke futility, to contract a covenant. And judgment buds as verdure on the furrows of the field." ⁵ The tabernaclers of Samaria will be stirred up for the heifer of Beth-aven, for its people mourn over it, and its dervishes are exulting over it, over its glory, for it is deported from it." ⁶ Moreover, it shall be fetched to Assyria, a present to king Jareb. Ephraim shall take shame, and Israel shall be ashamed because of its counsel." ⁷ Samaria is stilled; its king is as froth on the surface of water. ⁸ The fane heights of Aven shall be exterminated, the sin of Israel. The thorn and the weed shall come up on their altars. And they shall say to the mountains, Cover us! And to the hills, Fall on us!" ⁹ More than in the days of Gibeah do you sin, Israel; there they stood! In Gibeah the battle against the sons of iniquity is not overtaking them." ¹⁰ When I come, then I will discipline them, and peoples shall be gathered against them, when they are disciplined for their two depravities." ¹¹ Yet Ephraim is a heifer being taught, loving to thresh; and I pass the yoke over her good neck; I will cause Ephraim to be ridden. Judah shall plow; Jacob will harrow for him." ¹² Sow for yourselves for righteousness and reap the fruit of kindness. Till tillage for yourselves. Then is the season to inquire for Yahweh, until He shall come and direct righteousness to you." ¹³ You plow wickedness; iniquity you reap. You eat the fruit of dissimulation, for you trust in your chariots, in the multitude of your masters." ¹⁴ Yet a tumult shall rise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be devastated, as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when the mother was dashed in pieces on the sons." ¹⁵ Thus will He do to you, house of Israel, in view of the evil of your evil. In the dawn, surely stilled shall be the king of Israel."