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13 The sorrows of a woman in labour shall come upon him, he is an unwise son: for now he shall not stand in the breach of the children.

14 I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite: comfort is hidden from my eyes.

15 Because he shall make a separation between brothers: the Lord will bring a burning wind that shall rise from the desert, and it shall dry up his springs, and shall make his fountain desolate, and he shall carry off the treasure of every desirable vessel.

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13 Pains as of a woman in childbirth(A) come to him,
    but he is a child without wisdom;
when the time(B) arrives,
    he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb.(C)

14 “I will deliver this people from the power of the grave;(D)
    I will redeem them from death.(E)
Where, O death, are your plagues?
    Where, O grave, is your destruction?(F)

“I will have no compassion,
15     even though he thrives(G) among his brothers.
An east wind(H) from the Lord will come,
    blowing in from the desert;
his spring will fail
    and his well dry up.(I)
His storehouse will be plundered(J)
    of all its treasures.

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13 The pains of (A)childbirth come on him;
He is (B)not a wise son,
For [a]it is not the time that he should (C)delay at the opening of the womb.
14 Shall I (D)ransom them from the [b]power of Sheol?
Shall I redeem them from death?
(E)Death, where are your [c]thorns?
Sheol, where is your sting?
(F)Compassion will be hidden from My sight.

15 Though he (G)flourishes among the [d]reeds,
An (H)east wind will come,
The wind of the Lord coming up from the wilderness;
And his fountain will (I)become dry
And his spring will dry up;
It will (J)plunder his treasury of every precious article.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:13 Lit it is the time that he should not remain at the opening of children
  2. Hosea 13:14 Lit hand
  3. Hosea 13:14 Or stings
  4. Hosea 13:15 Another reading is brothers