Hosea 7:11–16

[11] Ephraim is like a dove,

silly and without sense,

calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.

[12] As they go, I will spread over them my net;

I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;

I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.

[13] Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!

Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!

I would redeem them,

but they speak lies against me.

[14] They do not cry to me from the heart,

but they wail upon their beds;

for grain and wine they gash themselves;

they rebel against me.

[15] Although I trained and strengthened their arms,

yet they devise evil against me.

[16] They return, but not upward;

they are like a treacherous bow;

their princes shall fall by the sword

because of the insolence of their tongue.

This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.