Hosea 9:10-17
The people in Israel will cause God to punish them by their worship of idols
it was as if I had found
When I saw your
it was as if I had found early fruit on a
But then they came to the god, Baal-Peor.
They began to
They became like the
It will be like a bird.
There will be no more times when babies grow inside women.
There will be no more times when women give birth to babies.
There will be no more children.
I will cause the children to die.
There will be none that still live.
I will leave them. It will be very bad for them.
They are going to someone who will kill them.’
Make it impossible for their women to have babies!
Make it impossible for their breasts to give milk to their babies!
It was there that I began not to like them in any way.
I will tell them that they must leave my country.
I will not love them any longer.
Their leaders have not obeyed me.
They are like a plant that has no water.
This plant will have no fruit.
They will have no children.
Even if they have children, I will kill the children.
They think that these children are very important.’
That is because they have not obeyed him.
They will have to travel from place to place in different countries.