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The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will become unusable.
    Thorns and thistles will grow on their altars.
    They will say to the mountains, “Cover us!”
    and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

Learn the Lesson of Gibeah

Israel, you have sinned ever since the days of Gibeah,
    where the evildoers took their stand.
    The war against the evildoers caught up with them at Gibeah, did it not?
10 When I see fit, I will discipline them.[a]
    Peoples will be gathered against them
        to bind them for their double guilt.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:10 The text of the line is uncertain.
  2. Hosea 10:10 Or two crimes. The text of the line is uncertain.