Hosea 8:7-9

International Children’s Bible

⁷ “Israel’s foolish plans are like planting the wind.
    But they will harvest a whirlwind.
Her plans are like a stalk with no head of grain.
    It produces nothing.
Even if it produces something,
    other nations would eat it.
⁸ Israel is destroyed.
    The people are mixed among the other nations.
    They have become useless to me.
⁹ Like a wild donkey,
    Israel has run to Assyria.
    Israel has hired other nations to protect her.