Hosea 7:13-15

Contemporary English Version

¹³Trouble and destruction
will be their reward
for rejecting me.
I would have rescued them,
but they told me lies.

¹⁴They don't really pray to me;
    they just howl in their beds.
They have rejected me for Baal
    and slashed themselves,^[a]
in the hope that Baal
    will bless their crops.
¹⁵I taught them what they know,
    and I made them strong.
Now they plot against me

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Footnotes

7.14 slashed themselves: One ancient translation and some Hebrew manuscripts; other Hebrew manuscripts “gather together.” Slashing themselves was one way of worshiping Baal (see 1 Kings 18.28).