TSK · Hosea 9:7

What will you do on judgment day, when destruction arrives from a distant place? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

For the LORD has planned a day of revenge, a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion.

They offer only superficial help for the harm my people have suffered. They say,‘Everything will be all right!’ But everything is not all right!

They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

Before I restore them I will punish them in full for their sins and the wrongs they have done. For they have polluted my land with the lifeless statues of their disgusting idols. They have filled the land I have claimed as my own with their detestable idols.”

“The LORD has made you priest in place of Jehoiada. He has put you in charge in the LORD’s temple of controlling any lunatic who pretends to be a prophet. And it is your duty to put any such person in the stocks with an iron collar around his neck.

נ(Nun) Your prophets saw visions for you that were worthless whitewash. They failed to expose your sin so as to restore your fortunes. They saw oracles for you that were worthless lies.

“Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel,‘The days pass slowly, and every vision fails’?

“‘This is because they have led my people astray saying,“All is well,” when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar, they coat it with whitewash.

I will exact great vengeance upon them with angry rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I exact my vengeance upon them.’”

Ephraim will be ruined in the day of judgment! What I am declaring to the tribes of Israel will certainly take place!

He said,“What do you see, Amos?” I replied,“A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me,“The end has come for my people Israel! I will no longer overlook their sins.

The best of them is like a thorn; their godly are like a thorn bush. Woe to your watchmen; your appointed punishment is on the way. The time of their confusion is now.

Her prophets are proud; they are deceitful men. Her priests have defiled what is holy; they have broken God’s laws.

When his family heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said,“He is out of his mind.”

As Paul was saying these things in his defense, Festus exclaimed loudly,“You have lost your mind, Paul! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.