Hosea 9:7-8

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁷ The days of ^(A)punishment have come,
The days of ^(B)retribution have come;
^[a]Let Israel know this!
The prophet is a ^(C)fool,
The ^[b]inspired man is ^(D)demented,
Because of the grossness of your ^(E)iniquity,
And because your hostility is so great.
⁸ Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.