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11 I was angry, but I agreed to give you a king.
Now I am even more angry and I will take your king away!

12 I have a record of Ephraim's sin.
Ephraim's people will certainly receive their punishment.
13 They will be in pain like a woman who is giving birth.
Her child is foolish. He refuses to be born!

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11 So in my anger I gave you a king,(A)
    and in my wrath I took him away.(B)
12 The guilt of Ephraim is stored up,
    his sins are kept on record.(C)
13 Pains as of a woman in childbirth(D) come to him,
    but he is a child without wisdom;
when the time(E) arrives,
    he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb.(F)

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