Hosea 9:14-16

Contemporary English Version

¹⁴ Our Lord, do just one thing
    for your people—
make their women unable
to have children
    or to nurse their babies.

¹⁵ Israel, I first began
to hate you because
    you did evil at Gilgal.^[a]
Now I will chase you
    out of my house.
No longer will I love you;
    your leaders betrayed me.
¹⁶ Israel, you are a vine
with dried-up roots
    and fruitless branches.
Even if you had more children
and loved them dearly,
    I would slaughter them all.