Their heart is [a]divided: now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars; he shall destroy their images.

For now they shall say, We have no [b]King because we feared not the Lord: and what should a King do to us?

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making [c]a covenant: thus [d]judgment groweth as wormwood in the furrows of the field.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:2 To wit, from God.
  2. Hosea 10:3 The day shall come that God shall take away their king, and then they shall feel the fruit of their sins, and how they trusted in him in vain, 2 Kings 17:6, 7.
  3. Hosea 10:4 In promising to be faithful toward God.
  4. Hosea 10:4 Thus their integrity and fidelity, which they pretended, was nothing but bitterness and grief.

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