Hosea 8:12-14

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹² Though I write for him the multitude of my instructions,
    they are regarded as a strange thing.
¹³ Though they offer choice sacrifices,^[a]
    though they eat flesh,
    the Lord does not accept them.
Now he will remember their iniquity,
    and punish their sins;
    they shall return to Egypt.
¹⁴ Israel has forgotten his Maker,
    and built palaces;
and Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
    but I will send a fire upon his cities,
    and it shall devour his strongholds.