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9:5. What will you do in the solemn day, in the day of the feast of the
Lord?
9:6. For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather
them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their
beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles.
9:7. The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come:
know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was
mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy
madness.
9:8. The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: the prophet is become a
snare of ruin upon all his ways, madness is in the house of his God.
9:9. They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will remember
their iniquity, and will visit their sin.
9:10. I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like
the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to
Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became
abominable, as those things were, which they loved.
9:11. As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like bird from the
birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
9:12. And though they should bring up their children, I will make them
without children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart
from them.
9:13. Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre, founded in beauty: and Ephraim
shall bring out his children to the murderer.
9:14. Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb
without children, and dry breasts.
9:15. All their wickedness is in Galgal, for there I hated them: for the
wickedness of their devices I will cast them forth out of my house: I
will love them no more, all their princes are revolters.
9:16. Ephraim is struck, their root is dried up, they shall yield no
fruit. And if they should have issue, I will slay the best beloved fruit
of their womb.
9:17. My God will cast them away, because they hearkened not to him: and
they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Osee Chapter 10
After many benefits, great affliction shall fall upon the ten tribes,
for their ingratitude to God.
10:1. Israel a vine full of branches, the fruit is agreeable to it:
according to the multitude of his fruit, he hath multiplied altars,
according to the plenty of his land he hath abounded with idols.
10:2. Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break down
their idols, he shall destroy their altars.
10:3. For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear not the
Lord: and what shall a king do to us?
10:4. You speak words of an unprofitable vision, and you shall make a
covenant: and judgment shall spring up as bitterness in the furrows of
the field.
10:5. The inhabitants of Samaria have worshipped the kine of Bethaven:
for the people thereof have mourned over it, and the wardens of its
temple that rejoiced over it in its glory because it is departed from
it.
The kine of Bethaven... The golden calves of Jeroboam.
10:6. For itself also is carried into Assyria, a present to the avenging
king: shame shall fall upon Ephraim, and Israel shall be confounded in
his own will.
Itself also is carried, etc... One of the golden calves was given by
king Manahem, to Phul, king of the Assyrians, to engage him to stand by
him.
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