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12 When they go out, I will spread my net over them.
    I will bring them down like birds from the sky.
    I will discipline them, on the basis of the report about their assembly.[a]
13 Woe to them,
    because they have strayed from me!
    Destruction comes upon them,
    because they have rebelled against me!
    I want to redeem them,
    but they speak lies against me.
14 They do not cry out to me with their hearts,
    but they howl on their beds.
    They gather together[b] for grain and new wine.
    They turn away from me.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:12 Or I will discipline them when I hear them flocking together. The meaning of the line is uncertain.
  2. Hosea 7:14 Or they cut themselves, a reference to heathen religious practices