O Israel, thou hast [a]sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they [b]stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not [c]touch them.

10 It is my desire [d]that I should chastise them, and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall gather themselves in their two [e]furrows.

11 And Ephraim is as a heifer used to delight in [f]threshing: but I will pass by her [g]fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride: Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:9 In those days wast thou as wicked as the Gibeonites, as God there partly declared: for thy zeal could not be good in executing God’s judgments, seeing thine own deeds were as wicked as theirs.
  2. Hosea 10:9 To wit, to fight, or the Israelites remained in that stubbornness from that time.
  3. Hosea 10:9 The Israelites were not moved by their example to cease from their sins.
  4. Hosea 10:10 Because they are so desperate, I will delight to destroy them.
  5. Hosea 10:10 That is, when they have gathered all their strength together.
  6. Hosea 10:11 Wherein is pleasure, as in plowing is labor and pain.
  7. Hosea 10:11 I will lay my yoke upon her fat neck.

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