Hosea 10:7-9

New Living Translation

⁷ Samaria and its king will be cut off;
    they will float away like driftwood on an ocean wave.
⁸ And the pagan shrines of Aven,^[a] the place of Israel’s sin, will crumble.
    Thorns and thistles will grow up around their altars.
They will beg the mountains, “Bury us!”
    and plead with the hills, “Fall on us!”

⁹ The Lord says, “O Israel, ever since Gibeah,
    there has been only sin and more sin!
You have made no progress whatsoever.
    Was it not right that the wicked men of Gibeah were attacked?