Hosea 13:11-13

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹¹ I have given you a king in My anger, and I have taken him away in My wrath.

¹² The iniquity of Ephraim [not fully punished yet] is bound up [as in a bag]; his sin is laid up in store [for judgment and destruction].

¹³ The pains of a woman in childbirth are coming on for him [to be born]; but he is an unwise son, for now when it is time [to be born], he comes not to the place where [unborn] children break forth [he needs new birth but makes no effort to acquire it].