Hosea 10:13

Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

Ye have plowed wickedness. Ye do not even leave it to grow of itself, which it is sure to do on the naturally corrupt soft of the heart, but ye are at pains to cultivate it.

Ye have reaped iniquity - i:e., the fruit of iniquity; as "righteousness" () is "the fruit of righteousness" (; ; Galatians 6:6). Iniquity itself is its own awful fruit reaped by the perpetrator at last.

Ye have eaten the fruit of lies - "lies," false and spurious worship.

Because thou didst trust in thy way - thy perverse way (; ) thy worship of false gods. This was in their view their internal safeguard, as their external was "the multitude of their mighty men."