28:009:006 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction:
Egypt shall
gather
them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant
places
for
their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns
shall be
in
their tabernacles.
28:009:007 The days of visitation are come, the days
of recompence are
come;
Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the
spiritual
man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and
the
great hatred.
28:009:008 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God:
but the prophet is a
snare
of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house
of
his
God.
28:009:009 They have deeply corrupted themselves,
as in the days of
Gibeah:
therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will
visit
their sins.
28:009:010 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your
fathers
as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time:
but
they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto
that
shame;
and their abominations were according as they loved.
28:009:011 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away
like a bird, from
the
birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
28:009:012 Though they bring up their children, yet
will I bereave them,
that
there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to
them when
I
depart from them!
28:009:013 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in
a pleasant place: but
Ephraim
shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
28:009:014 Give them, O lord: what wilt
thou give? give them a
miscarrying
womb and dry breasts.
28:009:015 All their wickedness is in Gilgal:
for there I hated them: for
the
wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of
mine
house,
I will love them no more: all their princes are
revolters.
28:009:016 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried
up, they shall bear no
fruit:
yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even
the
beloved
fruit of their womb.
28:009:017 My God will cast them away, because they
did not hearken unto
him:
and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
28:010:001 Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth
fruit unto himself:
according
to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the
altars;
according to the goodness of his land they have made
goodly
images.
28:010:002 Their heart is divided; now shall they
be found faulty: he
shall
break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
28:010:003 For now they shall say, We have no king,
because we feared not
the
lord; what then should a king do to us?


