⁴ Yet I have been ^(K)Yahweh your God
Since the land of Egypt;
And you were not to know ^(L)any god except Me,
And there is no savior ^(M)besides Me.
⁵ I Myself ^(N)knew you in the wilderness,
^(O)In the land of drought.
⁶ As they had their pasture, then they became ^(P)satisfied,
Indeed, they were satisfied, and their ^(Q)heart became raised up;
Therefore they ^(R)forgot Me.
⁷ So I will be ^(S)like a lion to them;
Like a ^(T)leopard I will ^[e]lie in wait by the wayside.
⁸ I will encounter them ^(U)like a bear robbed of her cubs,
And I will tear open ^[f]the chest enclosing their heart;
There I will also ^(V)devour them like a lioness,
As a beast of the field would rip them open.

⁹ It is your ruin, O Israel,
^[g]That you are ^(W)against Me, against your ^(X)help.
¹⁰ Where now is your ^(Y)king,
That he may save you in all your cities,
And your ^(Z)judges of whom you said,
“Give me a king and princes”?
¹¹ I ^(AA)gave you a king in My anger
And ^(AB)took him away in My wrath.

¹² The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;
His sin is ^(AC)stored up.
¹³ The pains of ^(AD)childbirth come upon him;
He is ^(AE)not a wise son,
For ^[h]it is not the time that he should ^(AF)delay at the opening of the womb.
¹⁴ Shall I ^(AG)ransom them from the ^[i]power of Sheol?
Shall I redeem them from death?
^(AH)O Death, where are your thorns?
O Sheol, where is your sting?
^(AI)Compassion will be hidden from My sight.

¹⁵ Though he ^(AJ)is fruitful among the ^[j]reeds,
An ^(AK)east wind will come,
The wind of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness;
And his fountain will ^(AL)become dry,
And his spring will be dried up;
It will ^(AM)plunder his treasury of every desirable article.
^16 [k]Samaria will be held ^(AN)guilty,
For she has ^(AO)rebelled against her God.
^(AP)They will fall by the ^(AQ)sword;
Their infants will be ^(AR)dashed in pieces,
And their pregnant ^(AS)women will be ripped open.