Hosea 13:4-14
Authorized (King James) Version
4 Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt,
and thou shalt know no god but me:
for there is no saviour beside me.
5 I did know thee in the wilderness,
in the land of great drought.
6 According to their pasture, so were they filled;
they were filled, and their heart was exalted;
therefore have they forgotten me.
7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion:
as a leopard by the way will I observe them:
8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps,
and will rend the caul of their heart,
and there will I devour them like a lion:
the wild beast shall tear them.
9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself;
but in me is thine help.
10 I will be thy king:
where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities?
and thy judges of whom thou saidst,
Give me a king and princes?
11 I gave thee a king in mine anger,
and took him away in my wrath.
12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;
his sin is hid.
13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him:
he is an unwise son;
for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.
14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave;
I will redeem them from death:
O death, I will be thy plagues;
O grave, I will be thy destruction:
repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
KJV reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s patentee in the UK.