Hosea 7:11-13

The Voice

¹¹     Ephraim is like a dove caught in foreign intrigues, silly and without sense:
        they call to Egypt; they go to Assyria.
¹²     But as they fly to others for help, I’ll throw My net over them.
        I’ll bring them down like birds out of the sky and punish them,
        as their congregation knows full well.

¹³     May they experience sorrow for wandering away from Me!
        May they be destroyed for the way they’ve rebelled against Me!
    I would like to buy them back from death,
        but they would just keep lying to Me and against Me.