Hosea 9:6-8

Modern English Version

⁶ For indeed they are gone because of destruction.
    Egypt will gather them,
    and Memphis will bury them.
Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver,
    and thorns will be in their tents.
⁷ The days of punishment have come;
    the days of recompense have come.
    Israel knows!
The prophet is a fool;
    the man of the spirit is insane,
because of your great iniquity and great hatred.
⁸ The watchman of Ephraim is a prophet
    for my God;
yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways,
    and hatred in the house of his God.