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title: "Commentary on Hosea"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "John Owen"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 82 of 86
url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-hosea/82/
cite: "John Calvin, tr. John Owen, Commentary on Hosea, section 82. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-hosea/82/"
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# Commentary on Hosea

*John Calvin, tr. John Owen*

Calvin on Hosea, the prophet of a faithful God and an unfaithful people.

## 82. Chapter 10

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-hosea/82/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-hosea/82/#p-N

[¶0] 1 A vine robbed is Israel; Fruit will he lay up for himself: (351) According to the abundance of his fruit Hath he abounded towards altars; According to the goodness of his land Hath he done good to statues.

[¶1] 2 Divided has been their heart; They shall now be proved guilty: — He will overturn their altars, He will destroy their statues.

[¶2] 3 For now they will say, — “We have no king, Because we feared not Jehovah; And a king, what will he do for us?” —

[¶3] 4 They have spoken words only, — Swearing falsely, — making a covenant: (356) Judgment grows up as wormwood in the furrows of the field.

[¶4] 5 For the calves of Bethaven, (359) Tremble will the inhabitants of Samaria; For mourn over it will its people, And its priests, who rejoice in it, over its glory: For it shall depart from it;

[¶5] 6 And itself shall to Assyria be carried, A present to king Jareb: — Shame shall Ephraim receive, And ashamed shall Israel be of his counsel.

[¶6] 7 Cut down shall be the king of Samaria, As a foam on the surface of the waters. (363)

[¶7] 8 Perish shall the high places of Aven — the sin of Israel; The thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; And they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,” And to the hills, “Fall on us.”

[¶8] 9 From the days of Gibeah hast thou, Israel, sinned: There they stood, — the battle in Gibeah, Against the children of iniquity, laid not hold on them.

[¶9] 10 It is my wish, and I will chastise them; And assembled against them shall nations be, When they shall be bound together by their two furrows. (371)

[¶10] 11 Ephraim is an heifer, trained to love the treading of corn; But I passed over on her beautiful neck; — To ride will I make Ephraim, — Plough shall Judah, — harrow for himself shall Jacob.

[¶11] 12 Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Gather for your measure kindness; Plough for yourselves what has been ploughed: And time it is to seek Jehovah, till he come, And rain righteousness upon you: —

[¶12] 13 Ye have ploughed ungodliness, iniquity have ye reaped; Ye have eaten the fruit of falsehood: For you have trusted in your own way, In the multitude of thy valiant ones.

[¶13] 14 A tumult shall therefore rise among thy people, And every one of thy fortresses shall be laid waste, According to the devastation of Shalman in Betharbel: In the day of battle shall the mother, With the children, be dashed in pieces. —

[¶14] 15 Thus shall Bethel do to you, On account of wickedness — of your wickedness: In one morning shall utterly perish the king of Israel.