Hosea 10:14–11:1

But the volcano of war will erupt among your people.

All your defense posts will be leveled

As viciously as king Shalman

leveled the town of Beth-arba,

When mothers and their babies

were smashed on the rocks.

That’s what’s ahead for you, you so-called people of God,

because of your off-the-charts evil.

Some morning you’re going to wake up

and find Israel, king and kingdom, a blank—nothing.

Israel Played at Religion with Toy Gods

^1–911“When Israel was only a child, I loved him.

I called out, ‘My son!’—called him out of Egypt.