Hosea 10:1-15

The nation Israel is described by the prophet under the figure of a grapevine. It is a luxuriant vine but it bears unclean fruit which Jehovah rejects. The golden calves are going as a present for Jareb (the kings of Assyria). This duplicitous nation dispairs having hitched themselves to lies (the calves and their kings). Their only hope is to do the work of repentance breaking up the fallow ground of rigteousness.