12 When they go, I will throw my net(A) over them;
    I will pull them down like the birds in the sky.
When I hear them flocking together,
    I will catch them.
13 Woe(B) to them,
    because they have strayed(C) from me!
Destruction to them,
    because they have rebelled against me!
I long to redeem them
    but they speak about me(D) falsely.(E)
14 They do not cry out to me from their hearts(F)
    but wail on their beds.
They slash themselves,[a] appealing to their gods
    for grain and new wine,(G)
    but they turn away from me.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:14 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts They gather together

12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

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