Hosea 9:10-12

New Catholic Bible

¹⁰ It was like finding grapes in the desert
    when I found Israel.
When I saw your fathers,
    it was like seeing the early frost on a fig tree.
However, when they came to Baal-peor,
    they consecrated themselves to a shameful idol,
    and they became as loathsome as the thing they loved.
¹¹ Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird—
    no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.
¹² Even if they were to bear children,
    I will take away from them every single one.
Woe to them
    when I turn away from them!