Hosea 9:5-7

New International Reader's Version

⁵ What will you do when your appointed feasts come?
    What will you do on the Lord’s special days?
⁶ Some of you will escape without being destroyed.
    But you will die in Egypt.
    Your bodies will be buried at Memphis.
Weeds will cover your treasures of silver.
    Thorns will grow up in your tents.
⁷ The time when God will punish you is coming.
    The day when he will judge you is near.
    I want Israel to know this.
You have committed many sins.
    And you hate me very much.
That’s why you think the prophet is foolish.
    You think the person the Lord speaks through is crazy.