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The wicked altars on the hills will break into pieces.[a]
These are places where Israel's people have done bad things.
Thorn bushes and weeds will grow all over their altars.
Then the people will say to the mountains, ‘Hide us!’
They will say to the hills, ‘Fall on us!’

The Lord promises to punish Israel

The Lord says,

‘People of Israel, you have continued to do bad things,
since the time that you were at Gibeah.[b]
When the people did evil things at Gibeah,
war destroyed them as a result.
10 When I decide that the time is right,
I will punish the Israelites.
Because of their many sins,
I will bring other nations to attack them.
Their enemies will tie them up with chains.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:8 Assyria destroyed Samaria in 722 BC. Nobody built it again.
  2. 10:9 Hosea writes again about what he said in 9:9. Israel's people sinned very badly at the time of Gibeah. They were not able to stop doing this sin.