Futile Reliance on the Nations
11 “Ephraim lalso is like a silly dove, without 5sense—
mThey call to Egypt,
They go to nAssyria.
12 Wherever they go, I will ospread My net on them;
I will bring them down like birds of the air;
I will chastise them
pAccording to what their congregation has heard.
13 “Woe to them, for they have fled from Me!
Destruction to them,
Because they have transgressed against Me!
Though qI redeemed them,
Yet they have spoken lies against Me.
14 rThey did not cry out to Me with their heart
When they wailed upon their beds.
“They 6assemble together for grain and new swine,
7They rebel against Me;
15 Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms,
Yet they devise evil against Me;
16 They return, but not 8to the Most High;
tThey are like a treacherous bow.
Their princes shall fall by the sword
For the ucursings of their tongue.
This shall be their derision vin the land of Egypt.
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