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Hosea 5:9

Contemporary English Version 1995

I, the Lord, will punish and wipe out Israel. This is my solemn promise to every tribe of Israel.

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But my warnings and my words spoken by the prophets caught up with your ancestors. So they turned back to me and said, “Lord All-Powerful, you have punished us for our sins, just as you had planned.”

From the very beginning, I told what would happen long before it took place. I kept my word

I am saying this to you now, so that when the time comes, you will remember what I have said. I was with you at the first, and so I didn't tell you these things.

Now, listen to what the Lord says about you: Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will be killed in war, and your land will be divided among others. You will die in a country of foreigners, and the people of Israel will be dragged from their homeland.

Their sacred places will be destroyed, and I will send war against the nation of King Jeroboam.”

Whatever the Lord God plans to do, he tells his servants, the prophets.

Israel, you are ruined, and now the nations consider you worthless.

So I'll become a fierce lion attacking Israel and Judah. I'll snatch and carry off what I want, and no one can stop me.

Now I, the Lord, will fill Israel with maggots and make Judah rot.

And I told you these things, so that when they happened you would not say, “The idols we worship did this.”

Long ago I announced what was going to be, then without warning, I made it happen.

Isaiah, these are difficult and disgraceful times. Our nation is like a woman too weak to give birth, when it's time for her baby to be born.

No one can rebuild what he destroys, or release those he has imprisoned.

But I will catch them in a net as hunters trap birds; I threatened to punish them, and indeed I will.

Israel, the time has come. You will get what you deserve, and you will know it. “Prophets are fools,” you say. “And God's messengers are crazy.” Your terrible guilt has filled you with hatred.

Because of your sins, I will wound you and leave you ruined and defenseless.




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