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Hosea 9:6-8
New Catholic Bible
Hosea 9:6-8
New Catholic Bible
6 Even if the people escape destruction,
Egypt will gather them
and Memphis[a] will bury them.
Weeds will swallow up their treasures of silver,
and thorns will overrun their tents.
The Prophet Is Ridiculed
7 The days of punishment have come;
the days of retribution are here.
Israel cries out,
“The prophet is a fool,
the inspired man is a maniac.”
Because your iniquity is great,
all the greater is your hostility.
8 The prophet has been appointed by God
to serve as a watchman over Ephraim.
Yet snares await him on all his paths
and he incurs hostility in the house of his God.
Footnotes
- Hosea 9:6 Memphis: in Lower Egypt.