Hosea 10:9-15

New King James Version

⁹ “O Israel, you have sinned from the days of ^(A)Gibeah;
There they stood.
The ^(B)battle in Gibeah against the children of ^[a]iniquity
Did not ^[b]overtake them.
¹⁰ When it is My desire, I will chasten them.
^(C)Peoples shall be gathered against them
When I bind them ^[c]for their two transgressions.
¹¹ Ephraim is ^(D)a trained heifer
That loves to thresh grain;
But I harnessed her fair neck,
I will make Ephraim ^[d]pull a plow.
Judah shall plow;
Jacob shall break his clods.”

¹² Sow for yourselves righteousness;
Reap in mercy;
^(E)Break up your fallow ground,
For it is time to seek the Lord,
Till He ^(F)comes and rains righteousness on you.

^13 (G)You have plowed wickedness;
You have reaped iniquity.
You have eaten the fruit of lies,
Because you trusted in your own way,
In the multitude of your mighty men.
¹⁴ Therefore tumult shall arise among your people,
And all your fortresses shall be plundered
As Shalman plundered Beth Arbel in the day of battle—
A mother dashed in pieces upon her children.
¹⁵ Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel,
Because of your great wickedness.
At dawn the king of Israel
Shall be cut off utterly.