Hosea 9:7-9

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁷ The time for them to be punished will come.
The time for them to pay for their sins will come.
⌞When this happens,⌟ Israel will know it.
⌞They think that⌟ prophets are fools
and that spiritual people are crazy.
They have sinned a lot, and they are very hostile.
⁸ Prophets are God’s watchmen over Ephraim.
Yet, traps are set on every prophet’s path,
and people are hostile in the temple of their God.
⁹ People have deeply corrupted themselves as they once did at Gibeah.
God will remember their wickedness
and punish them because of their sins.