Hosea 7:12-14

International Children’s Bible

¹² When they go, I will catch them
    as men catch birds in a net.
Then I will punish them
    as I have warned them.
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.
¹⁴ They do not call to me from their hearts.
    They just lie on their beds and cry.
They come together to ask for grain and new wine.
    But they really turn away from me.