The days of visitation are come: the days of recompense are come: Israel shall know it: [a]the Prophet is a fool: the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity: therefore the hatred is great.

The watchman of Ephraim [b]should be with my God: but the Prophet is the snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

They [c]are deeply set: they are corrupt as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:7 Then they shall know that they were deluded by them, who challenged to themselves to be their prophets and spiritual men.
  2. Hosea 9:8 The Prophet’s duty is to bring men to God, and not to be a snare to pull them from God.
  3. Hosea 9:9 This people is so rooted in their wickedness, that Gibeah which was like to Sodom, was never more corrupt, Judg. 19:22.

The days of punishment(A) are coming,
    the days of reckoning(B) are at hand.
    Let Israel know this.
Because your sins(C) are so many
    and your hostility so great,
the prophet is considered a fool,(D)
    the inspired person a maniac.(E)
The prophet, along with my God,
    is the watchman over Ephraim,[a]
yet snares(F) await him on all his paths,
    and hostility in the house of his God.(G)
They have sunk deep into corruption,(H)
    as in the days of Gibeah.(I)
God will remember(J) their wickedness
    and punish them for their sins.(K)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:8 Or The prophet is the watchman over Ephraim, / the people of my God