Hosea 7:11-13

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Futile Reliance on the Nations

¹¹E′phraim is like a dove,
    silly and without sense,
    calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
¹²As they go, I will spread over them my net;
    I will bring them down like birds of the air;
    I will chastise them for their wicked deeds.^[a]
¹³Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
    Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
I would redeem them,
    but they speak lies against me.

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Hosea 7:12 Cn: Heb according to the report to their congregation

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