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• to me Israel cries out, My God! cries out, We acknowledge thee!✻ (Hosea 8, 2)

• Estranged, poor Israel, from the good that was his, and the enemy pressing hard upon him. (Hosea 8, 3)

• Israel gave birth to it, this calf of Samaria, that came of man’s fashioning, and god is none; it shall be beaten fine as filigree. (Hosea 8, 6)

• Poor Israel, already engulfed, the heathen all around making a despised tool of him! (Hosea 8, 8)

• The God that made them forgotten, Israel builds shrine and Juda stronghold still; but the fire I am kindling shall fall upon Juda’s cities, shall devour them, citadel and all. (Hosea 8, 14)

• No rejoicing, Israel, no cries of gladness now! Wouldst thou be like the heathen, and rejoice that thou hast played thy God false, ever selling thy favours to the first comer, in return for a full threshing-floor?✻ (Hosea 9, 1)

• 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)

• ay, though they should bring sons to manhood, childless their race shall be, nameless among men.Woe betide them indeed, when I withdraw my presence from them! (Hosea 9, 12)

• Ephraim’s land, so fair a garden, as I look out over it towards Tyre! And must Ephraim rear her sons for the slaughter-house?✻ (Hosea 9, 13)

• 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)