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Close at hand the audit-day, the doom close at hand! And wouldst thou know, Israel, why prophet is turned fool, and he can but rave now that once was inspired? God’s heavy plague is this for thy much sinning; (Hosea 9, 7)
When I kept tryst with Israel long ago, rare the encounter, as of grapes out in the desert, of spring figs a-ripening high up on the tree. And all at once to Beelphegor they betook themselves, sold honour for shame, caught foul contagion from the things they loved! (Hosea 9, 10)
A spreading vine is yonder vine of Israel, and fruit of him matches leaf. Rich, fertile soil; alas, how rich in altars, in sacred trees how fertile! (Hosea 10, 1)
carried off, now, into Assyria, for the pleasure of a ruthless king; fooled is Ephraim, Israel’s hopes have played him false. (Hosea 10, 6)
and with that, vanish the hill-shrines of false worship, Israel’s darling sin; grows thorn and thistle on their altars; no prayer have the men of Israel now but that mountains should fall on them, hills should bury them alive. (Hosea 10, 8)
Old is the tale of Israel’s guilt, old as what befell at Gabaa; there stood they unmoved; was it not at Gabaa the tide of battle reached them, battle against the champions of wrong?✻ (Hosea 10, 9)
Soon fades the dawn; soon passes king of Israel.Israel in his boyhood, what love I bore him! Away from Egypt I beckoned him, henceforth my son.✻ … (Hosea 11, 1)
What, Ephraim, must I abandon thee? Must I keep Israel under watch and ward? Can I let thee go the way of Adama, share the doom of Seboim? All at once my heart misgives me, and from its embers pity revives. (Hosea 11, 8)
Ephraim so false, Israel so treacherous, all about me! But Juda governs his folk with God to aid him; Juda takes part with the holy ones, loyal yet.✻ (Hosea 11, 12)
Time was when Jacob fled to the Aram country; Israel worked for a wife, and for that wife’s sake loyally kept his troth. (Hosea 12, 12)
Time was, when the Lord rescued Israel from Egypt by a prophet’s means, and, for that prophet’s sake loyally preserved them.✻ (Hosea 12, 13)
Spoke Ephraim,✻ all Israel trembled at his word; how else came they, for Baal’s worship, to barter away life itself? (Hosea 13, 1)
