Hosea 7:11-13

Contemporary English Version

¹¹ Israel^[a] is a senseless bird,
fluttering back and forth
    between Egypt and Assyria.
¹² But I will catch them in a net
    as hunters trap birds;
I threatened to punish them,
    and indeed I will.^[b]
13 Trouble and destruction
will be their reward
    for rejecting me.
I would have rescued them,
    but they told me lies.