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.

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.