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12 Ephraim’s guilt is piling up.
    I am keeping a record of all their sins.
13 They will suffer pain like a woman having a baby.
    They are like foolish children.
It is time for them to be born.
    But they don’t have the sense to come out of their mother’s body.

14 “I will set these people free from the power of the grave.
    I will save them from death.
Death, where are your plagues?
    Grave, where is your power to destroy?

“I will no longer pity Ephraim.

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