Hosea 6:11–7:1

¹¹“You’re as bad as the worst of them, Judah.

You’ve been sowing wild oats. Now it’s harvest time.”

Despite All the Signs, Israel Ignores God

^1–27“Every time I gave Israel a fresh start,

wiped the slate clean and got them going again,

Ephraim soon filled the slate with new sins,

the treachery of Samaria written out in bold print.

Two-faced and double-tongued,

they steal you blind, pick you clean.