Hosea 8:7-9

Contemporary English Version

⁷ If you scatter wind
    instead of wheat,
you will harvest a whirlwind
    and have no wheat.
Even if you harvest grain,
    enemies will steal it all.

⁸ Israel, you are ruined,
and now the nations
    consider you worthless.
⁹ You are like a wild donkey
    that goes its own way.
You've run off to Assyria
    and hired them as allies.