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Hosea 7:12-16 English Standard Version (ESV)

12. As they go, I will spread over them my net;I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.

13. Woe 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.

14. They do not cry to me from the heart,but they wail upon their beds;for grain and wine they gash themselves;they rebel against me.

15. Although I trained and strengthened their arms,yet they devise evil against me.

16. They return, but not upward;they are like a treacherous bow;their princes shall fall by the swordbecause of the insolence of their tongue.This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

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