Hosea 7:11-13

New Century Version

¹¹ Israel has become like a pigeon—
    easy to fool and stupid.
First they call to Egypt for help.
    Then they run to Assyria.
¹² When they go, I will catch them in a net,
    I will bring them down like birds from the sky;
    I will punish them countless times for their evil.
¹³ How terrible for them because they left me!
    They will be destroyed, because they turned against me.
I want to save them,
    but they have spoken lies against me.