The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, And the man who is inspired to be insane, Because of the abundance of your sins, And because your hostility is great.
Keil, and a number of the older writers properly understood the reference in this verse as a citation against false prophets: "Israel will learn that its prophets who only predicted prosperity and good were infatuated fools."[18]  There are extensive references in the Old Testament to these false prophets who only prophesied lies.  See  Jeremiah 5:13;  Ezekiel 13:10;  1 Kings 22:22; and  Micah 2:11.  Despite the popular understanding of this place as the people's denunciation of Hosea, there is no evidence at all to support such a notion; and furthermore the acceptance of it makes the understanding of the very next verse impossible.  As Harper said of  Hosea 9:8, "This verse is almost hopelessly confused."[19]  We would like to suggest instead that it is the commentators who are confused.