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Israel Reaps the Whirlwind
Because they have DHos 6:7transgressed My covenant
And rebelled against My EHos 4:6law.
2 APs 78:34; Hos 7:14They cry out to Me,
“My God, BTitus 1:16we of Israel know You!”
3 Israel has rejected the good;
The enemy will pursue him.
4 A2 Kin 15:13, 17, 25; Hos 13:10, 11They have set up kings, but not by Me;
They have appointed princes, but I did not know it.
With their BHos 2:8; 13:1, 2silver and gold they have made idols for themselves,
That 1Lit hethey might be cut off.
“My anger burns against them!”
How long will they be incapable of BPs 19:13; Jer 13:27innocence?
6 For from Israel is even this!
A AHos 13:2craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to 1Or splinterspieces.
7 For AProv 22:8they sow the wind
And they reap the BIs 66:15; Nah 1:3whirlwind.
The standing grain has no 1Lit growthheads;
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.
8 Israel is A2 Kin 17:6; Jer 51:34swallowed up;
They are now among the nations
Like a BJer 22:28; 25:34vessel in which no one delights.
9 For they have gone up to AHos 7:11Assyria,
Like BJer 2:24a wild donkey all alone;
Ephraim has CEzek 16:33, 34hired 1Lit loveslovers.
10 Even though they hire allies among the nations,
Now I will AEzek 16:37; 22:20gather them up;
And they will begin BJer 42:2to 1Or suffer for awhilediminish
Because of the burden of the CIs 10:8king of princes.
11 Since Ephraim has AHos 10:1multiplied altars for sin,
They have become altars of sinning for him.
They are regarded as a strange thing.
13 As for My AHos 5:6sacrificial gifts,
They BJer 6:20; 7:21sacrifice the flesh and eat it,
But the Loʀᴅ has taken no delight in them.
Now He will CJer 14:10; Hos 7:2; Luke 12:2; 1 Cor 4:5remember their iniquity,
And DHos 4:9; 9:7punish them for their sins;
They will return to EHos 9:3, 6Egypt.
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
But I will send a CJer 17:27fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.