Hosea 9:5-7

New Century Version

⁵ What will you do then on the day of feasts
    and on the day of the Lord’s festival?
⁶ Even if the people are not destroyed,
    Egypt will capture them;
    Memphis^[a] will bury them.
Weeds will grow over their silver treasures,
    and thorns will drive them out of their tents.
⁷ The time of punishment has come,
    the time to pay for sins.
    Let Israel know this:
You think the prophet is a fool,
    and you say the spiritual person is crazy.
You have sinned very much,
    and your hatred is great.