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Hosea 5:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 mad.” Your terrible guilt has filled you with hatred.

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

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.”

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

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.”

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.




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