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11 “Ephraim is also like a silly dove,
    lacking sense:[a]
They call out to Egypt,
    and turn toward Assyria.
12 When they go,
    I’ll cast my net over them.
I’ll bring them down, as one shoots[b] birds in the sky.
    I’ll chasten them,
        as the assembly has already heard.
13 Woe to them—
    because they have run away from me.
Ruin to them—
    because they have sinned against me.
Even though I redeemed them,
    they spread lies against me.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:11 Lit. heart
  2. Hosea 7:12 The Heb. lacks one shoots