Hosea 5:13-15

New International Reader's Version

¹³ “The people of Ephraim saw how sick they were.
    The people of Judah saw that they were wounded.
Then Ephraim turned to Assyria for help.
    They sent gifts to the great King Tiglath-Pileser.
But he is not able to make you well.
    He can’t heal your wounds.
¹⁴ I will be like a lion to Ephraim.
    I will attack Judah like a powerful lion.
I will tear them to pieces.
    I will drag them off.
Then I will leave them.
    No one will be able to save them.
¹⁵ I will go back to my lion’s den.
    I will stay there until they pay the price for their sin.
Then they will turn to me.
    They will suffer so much
    that they will really want me to help them.”