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“Israel, you have sinned since the ·time [L days] of Gibeah [9:9; Judg. 19–21],
    and ·the people there have continued sinning [L there they have remained; or there they took their stand].
·But war will surely overwhelm [L Did not war overtake…?] them in Gibeah,
    because of the evil they have done there.
10 When I ·am ready [desire; please],
    I will come to ·punish [discipline] them.
Nations will come together against them,
    and they will be ·punished [bound in chains] for their ·double [L two] sins [C could mean “twice the punishment” (Is. 40:2) or the two sins of rejecting God and his anointed Davidic king].

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Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, Israel;
There they stand!
Will the battle against the sons of injustice not overtake them in Gibeah?
10 When it is My (A)desire, I will [a](B)discipline them;
And (C)the peoples will be gathered against them
When they are bound for their double guilt.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:10 Or instruct