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Hosea 9:8-10
New Catholic Bible
Hosea 9:8-10
New Catholic Bible
8 The prophet has been appointed by God
to serve as a watchman over Ephraim.
Yet snares await him on all his paths
and he incurs hostility in the house of his God.
9 They have immersed themselves in corruption
as in the days of Gibeah.[a]
God will remember their iniquity
and punish their sins.
At the Roots of the Evil of Israel[b]
The Crimes of Baal-peor and Gilgal
10 It was like finding grapes in the desert
when I found Israel.
When I saw your fathers,
it was like seeing the early frost on a fig tree.
However, when they came to Baal-peor,
they consecrated themselves to a shameful idol,
and they became as loathsome as the thing they loved.
Footnotes
- Hosea 9:9 The days of Gibeah: a reference to the evil committed at Gibeah in the time of the Judges (see Jdg 19:22-30).
- Hosea 9:10 In this last part of the Book of Hosea there are more warnings and threats occasioned by contemporary sins, but the root of the evil is looked for in the historical errors of Israel.
