The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 9:11 (NIV)

Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird –
no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 9:12 (NIV)

Even if they bring up children,
I will bereave them of every one.
Woe to them
when I turn away from them!

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 9:13 (NIV)

I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre,
planted in a pleasant place.
But Ephraim will bring out
their children to the slayer.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 9:14 (NIV)

Give them, Lord—
what will you give them?
Give them wombs that miscarry
and breasts that are dry.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 9:15 (NIV)

“Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal,
I hated them there.
Because of their sinful deeds,
I will drive them out of my house.
I will no longer love them;
all their leaders are rebellious.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 9:16 (NIV)

Ephraim is blighted,
their root is withered,
they yield no fruit.
Even if they bear children,
I will slay their cherished offspring.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 9:17 (NIV)

My God will reject them
because they have not obeyed him;
they will be wanderers among the nations.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 10:1 (NIV)

Israel was a spreading vine;
he brought forth fruit for himself.
As his fruit increased,
he built more altars;
as his land prospered,
he adorned his sacred stones.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 10:2 (NIV)

Their heart is deceitful,
and now they must bear their guilt.
The Lord will demolish their altars
and destroy their sacred stones.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 10:3 (NIV)

Then they will say, ‘We have no king
because we did not revere the Lord.
But even if we had a king,
what could he do for us?’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 10:4 (NIV)

They make many promises,
take false oaths
and make agreements;
therefore lawsuits spring up
like poisonous weeds in a ploughed field.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 10:5 (NIV)

The people who live in Samaria fear
for the calf-idol of Beth Aven.
Its people will mourn over it,
and so will its idolatrous priests,
those who had rejoiced over its splendour,
because it is taken from them into exile.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 10:6 (NIV)

It will be carried to Assyria
as tribute for the great king.
Ephraim will be disgraced;
Israel will be ashamed of its foreign alliances.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 10:7 (NIV)

Samaria’s king will be destroyed,
swept away like a twig on the surface of the waters.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 10:8 (NIV)

The high places of wickedness will be destroyed –
it is the sin of Israel.
Thorns and thistles will grow up
and cover their altars.
Then they will say to the mountains, ‘Cover us!’
and to the hills, ‘Fall on us!

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 10:9 (NIV)

‘Since the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, Israel,
and there you have remained.
Will not war again overtake
the evildoers in Gibeah?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 10:10 (NIV)

When I please, I will punish them;
nations will be gathered against them
to put them in bonds for their double sin.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 10:11 (NIV)

Ephraim is a trained heifer
that loves to thresh;
so I will put a yoke
on her fair neck.
I will drive Ephraim,
Judah must plough,
and Jacob must break up the ground.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 10:12 (NIV)

Sow righteousness for yourselves,
reap the fruit of unfailing love,
and break up your unploughed ground;
for it is time to seek the Lord,
until he comes
and showers his righteousness on you.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 10:13 (NIV)

But you have planted wickedness,
you have reaped evil,
you have eaten the fruit of deception.
Because you have depended on your own strength
and on your many warriors,