Hosea 10:13

Ye have plowed wickedness. Used here in the sense of “ye have sowed wickedness.” The former conduct of the people of Israel had been the opposite of that which they are now exhorted to display (see v. 12). The evil they sowed had already yielded the inexorable harvest of iniquity (see Job 4:8; Prov. 22:8). Their confidence in the wisdom of their own ways betrayed them into disaster and war (see Prov. 14:12). Fruit of lies. Through hypocrisy and idolatry Israel had lied against God. Now the fruit of this dishonesty would be disillusionment, the smoke and ashes of sheer disappointment and nothingness. In thy way. Israel forsook God’s way of righteousness to follow their own ways of iniquity. By trusting in the vain help of Egypt and Assyria they made flesh their arm, and so departed from the Lord (see on Jer. 17:5).