Hosea 7:13-16

International Children’s Bible

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.
¹⁵ I trained them and gave them strength.
    But they have made evil plans against me.
¹⁶ They did not turn to the Most High God.
    They are like a crooked bow that does not shoot straight.
Their leaders brag about their strength.
    But they will be killed with swords.
Then the people in Egypt
    will laugh at them.