Hosea 9:7-9

Good News Translation

^7 (A)The time for punishment has come, the time when people will get what they deserve. When that happens, Israel will know it! “This prophet,” you say, “is a fool. This inspired man is insane.” You people hate me so much because your sin is so great. ⁸ God has sent me as a prophet to warn his people Israel. Yet wherever I go, you try to trap me like a bird. Even in God's Temple the people are the prophet's enemies. ^9 (B)They are hopelessly evil in what they do, just as they were at Gibeah.^[a] God will remember their sin and punish them for it.