WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.880 Chapter 10 Israel is an empty vine. 00:04.420 --> 00:06.180 He bringeth forth fruit unto himself. 00:07.080 --> 00:10.580 According to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars. 00:11.020 --> 00:14.100 According to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images. 00:14.960 --> 00:15.900 Their heart is divided. 00:16.420 --> 00:18.060 Now shall they be found faulty. 00:18.800 --> 00:20.280 He shall break down their altars. 00:20.520 --> 00:21.800 He shall spoil their images. 00:22.500 --> 00:27.220 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord. 00:27.220 --> 00:29.480 What then should a king do to us? 00:30.280 --> 00:34.100 They have spoken words, swearing falsely and making a covenant. 00:34.520 --> 00:38.080 Thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. 00:38.840 --> 00:42.740 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-Avon. 00:43.340 --> 00:47.280 For the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced 00:47.280 --> 00:47.620 on it. 00:48.100 --> 00:50.740 For the glory thereof, because it is departed from it. 00:51.400 --> 00:55.240 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to King Jerob. 00:56.140 --> 01:00.220 Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel. 01:01.120 --> 01:04.640 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water. 01:05.440 --> 01:09.200 The high places also of Avon, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. 01:09.640 --> 01:12.300 The thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars. 01:13.040 --> 01:18.500 And they shall say to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall on us. 01:19.640 --> 01:23.440 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah. 01:23.440 --> 01:24.360 There they stood. 01:25.020 --> 01:28.600 The battle in Gibeah against the children of Iniquity did not overtake them. 01:29.220 --> 01:31.620 It is in my desire that I should chastise them. 01:32.280 --> 01:36.200 And the people shall be gathered against them, and they shall bind themselves in 01:36.200 --> 01:37.080 their two furrows. 01:37.640 --> 01:42.520 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn. 01:43.360 --> 01:45.620 But I passed over upon her fair neck. 01:46.040 --> 01:52.060 I will make Ephraim to ride, Judah shall plough, and Jacob shall break his clods. 01:53.000 --> 01:56.560 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy. 01:57.360 --> 02:02.600 Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and 02:02.600 --> 02:03.940 rain righteousness upon you. 02:04.720 --> 02:09.820 Ye have ploughed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity, ye have eaten the fruit 02:09.820 --> 02:16.000 of lies, because thou didst trust in thy way in the multitude of thy mighty men. 02:16.000 --> 02:20.660 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be 02:20.660 --> 02:23.560 spoiled as Shalman spoiled Betharbal in the day of battle. 02:24.340 --> 02:26.740 A mother was dashed in pieces upon her children. 02:27.400 --> 02:30.360 So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness. 02:31.140 --> 02:34.660 In a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.