Israel is an empty ^avine, he bringeth forth ^bfruit unto ^chimself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the ^daltars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.

 2 Their heart is ^adivided; now shall they be found ^bfaulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

 3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord; what then should a king do to us?

 4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a ^acovenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

 5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the ^acalves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

 6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king ^aJareb: Ephraim shall receive ^bshame, and Israel shall be ^cashamed of his own ^dcounsel.

 7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

 8 The high places also of ^aAven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the ^bmountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

 9 O Israel, thou hast ^asinned from the days of ^bGibeah: there they stood: the ^cbattle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

 10 It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.