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10 “How prosperous Israel is—a luxuriant vine all filled with fruit! But the more wealth I give her, the more she pours it on the altars of her heathen gods; the richer the harvests I give her, the more beautiful the statues and idols she erects.

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Israel Is Punished

10 Israel is a luxuriant vine;[a]
he yields fruit for himself.
The more his fruit increased,
    the more he made numerous altars.
The more his land prospered,
    the more he[b] improved[c] his stone pillars.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:1 Or “ravaged vine”
  2. Hosea 10:1 Hebrew “they”
  3. Hosea 10:1 Or “made beautiful”