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to the murderer.
14
Give them, O L
ORD
: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and
dry breasts.
15
All their wickedness
is
in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their
doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes
are
revolters.
16
Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth,
yet will I slay
even
the beloved
fruit
of their womb.
17
My God will cast them away, because they
did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
CHAPTER 10
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.
2
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall
spoil their images.
3
For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the L
ORD
;
what then should a king do to us?
4
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant:
thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
5
The inhabitants of Samaria
shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: 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.
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.
7
As for
Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
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.
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.
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.
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.
12
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for
it is
time to
seek the L
ORD
, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
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.
14
Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy
fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth- arbel in the day of battle: the mother was
dashed in pieces upon
her
children.
15
So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness:
in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
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