Judgment and the Cross

from the series The Gospel According to Hosea

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  • Community:
    Ambassadors
    By:
    Paul Goebel
    Date:
    Scripture:
    Hosea 10

  • Hosea 10

    10:1   Israel is a luxuriant vine
        that yields its fruit.
      The more his fruit increased,
        the more altars he built;
      as his country improved,
        he improved his pillars.
    2   Their heart is false;
        now they must bear their guilt.
      The LORD will break down their altars
        and destroy their pillars.
    3   For now they will say:
        “We have no king,
      for we do not fear the LORD;
        and a king—what could he do for us?”
    4   They utter mere words;
        with empty oaths they make covenants;
      so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds
        in the furrows of the field.
    5   The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
        for the calf of Beth-aven.
      Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests—
        those who rejoiced over it and over its glory—
        for it has departed from them.
    6   The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria
        as tribute to the great king.
      Ephraim shall be put to shame,
        and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.
    7   Samaria’s king shall perish
        like a twig on the face of the waters.
    8   The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel,
        shall be destroyed.
      Thorn and thistle shall grow up
        on their altars,
      and they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,”
        and to the hills, “Fall on us.”
    9   From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel;
        there they have continued.
        Shall not the war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah?
    10   When I please, I will discipline them,
        and nations shall be gathered against them
        when they are bound up for their double iniquity.
    11   Ephraim was a trained calf
        that loved to thresh,
        and I spared her fair neck;
      but I will put Ephraim to the yoke;
        Judah must plow;
        Jacob must harrow for himself.
    12   Sow for yourselves righteousness;
        reap steadfast love;
        break up your fallow ground,
      for it is the time to seek the LORD,
        that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
    13   You have plowed iniquity;
        you have reaped injustice;
        you have eaten the fruit of lies.
      Because you have trusted in your own way
        and in the multitude of your warriors,
    14   therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people,
        and all your fortresses shall be destroyed,
      as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle;
        mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
    15   Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel,
        because of your great evil.
      At dawn the king of Israel
        shall be utterly cut off.