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Hosea 9:7 - 9:8


7
The days of punishment have come;
The days of recompense have come;
Let Israel know this!
The prophet is an ignorant fool,
The inspired man has madness,
Because of the abundance of your iniquity
And because your hostility has abounded.
8
Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.