A Luxuriant Vine — Hosea 10:7–11

As for Samaria, her king is cut off, as foam upon the water.

The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: 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.

O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood; the battle against the children of iniquity doth not overtake them in Gibeah.

When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.

And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loveth to tread out the grain; but I have passed over upon her fair neck:
I will set a rider on Ephraim;
Judah shall plow, Jacob shall break his clods.