Hosea 7:12-14

New International Reader's Version

¹² When they send for help,
    I will throw my net over them.
I will capture them like the birds in the sky.
    When I hear them gathering like birds,
    I will catch them.
¹³ How terrible it will be for them!
    They have wandered away from me.
So they will be destroyed.
    That’s because they have refused to obey me.
I long to save them.
    But they tell lies about me.
¹⁴ They do not cry out to me from their hearts.
    Instead, they just lie on their beds and sob.
They cut themselves when they pray to their gods
    for grain and fresh wine.
    But they turn away from me.