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Hosea 9:9

New American Bible - revised edition

They have sunk to the depths of corruption, as in the days of Gibeah; God will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.

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Then the Lord said to Moses: Go down at once because your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.

The earth is polluted because of its inhabitants, for they have transgressed laws, violated statutes, broken the ancient covenant.

Return, O Israelites, to him whom you have utterly deserted.

Thus says the Lord about this people: They so love to wander that they cannot restrain their feet. The Lord takes no pleasure in them; now he remembers their guilt, and will punish their sins.

In the eyes of those bound by oath this seems like a false omen; yet the lot taken in hand exposes the wickedness for which they, still bound by oath, will be taken in hand.

Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, Israel. There they took their stand; will war not reach them in Gibeah? Against a perverse people

Like people, like priest: I will punish them for their ways, and repay them for their deeds.

Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah! Sound the alarm in Beth-aven: “Look behind you, Benjamin!”

Yet they do not call to mind that I remember all their wickedness. Now their crimes surround them, present to my sight.

They love sacrifice, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord is not pleased with them. Now he will remember their guilt and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.

The watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God, is the prophet; yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways, hostility in the house of his God.

I said, “Surely now you will fear me, you will accept correction; They cannot fail to see all I have brought upon them.” Yet the more eagerly they have done all their corrupt deeds.

But his master said to him, “We will not turn off to a foreigner’s city, where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.

In the evening, however, an old man came from his work in the field; he was from the mountain region of Ephraim, though he was living in Gibeah where the local people were Benjaminites.

While they were enjoying themselves, the men of the city, a bunch of scoundrels, surrounded the house and beat on the door. They said to the old man who was the owner of the house, “Bring out the man who has come into your house, so that we may get intimate with him.”

They surrounded the men of Benjamin, pursued them from Nohah and drove them along to a point east of Gibeah.




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