Hosea 9:6-8

Lexham English Bible

⁶ For look! If they flee from the destruction,
    Egypt will gather them;
    Memphis^[a] will bury them.
Nettles will possess
    their precious things of silver;
        thorns will be in their tents.
⁷ The days of punishment have come;
the days of retribution have come;
    Israel knows!
The prophet is a fool,
    the man of the spirit is acting like a madman.
Because of the greatness of your sin,
    your hostility is great.
⁸ The prophet keeps watch over Ephraim for my God;
    the snare of a fowler is on all his ways,
    and hostility in the house of his God.