Hosea 9:13-15

Contemporary English Version

¹³ Israel, when I first met you,
I thought of you as palm trees
    growing in fertile ground.^[a]
Now you lead your people out,
    only to be slaughtered.

¹⁴ Our Lord, do just one thing
    for your people—
make their women unable
to have children
    or to nurse their babies.

¹⁵ Israel, I first began
to hate you because
    you did evil at Gilgal.^[b]
Now I will chase you
    out of my house.
No longer will I love you;
    your leaders betrayed me.