Hosea 9:7-9

New Catholic Bible

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.
⁹ They have immersed themselves in corruption
    as in the days of Gibeah.^[a]
God will remember their iniquity
    and punish their sins.