Hosea 9:5-7

International Children’s Bible

⁵ What will you do then on the day of feasts
    and on the festival days of the Lord?
⁶ Even if the people are not destroyed,
    Egypt will take them as captives.
    They will be buried in Memphis.^[a]
Weeds will grow over their silver treasures.
    Thorns will grow over their houses.
⁷ Let Israel know this.
    The time of punishment has come.
    The time to pay for your sins has come.
You have sinned very much,
    and your hatred is great.
You think the prophet is a fool.
    You say the spiritual man is crazy.