Hosea 9:6-8

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⁶ Listen! Perhaps some Israelites will escape when Assyria's army attacks.
But then Egypt's army will take hold of them.
They will die in Memphis and people will bury them there.^[a]
Weeds will grow all over their valuable silver things.
Thorn bushes will grow in their homes.
⁷ The time for Israel's punishment has arrived!
The Lord must now pay them back for their sins.
The Israelites will soon know about it!

You do many sins and you hate the Lord.
Because of that, you say that his prophets are fools.
You think that his messengers are crazy.
⁸ God has sent his prophet to warn the people of Ephraim.^[b]
But wherever he goes, people try to stop him.
They speak angry words against him, even in the temple of his God.