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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.

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12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store. 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; [a]for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of children.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:13 Or, when it is time, he standeth not in etc.

12 The guilt of Ephraim is stored up,
    his sins are kept on record.(A)
13 Pains as of a woman in childbirth(B) come to him,
    but he is a child without wisdom;
when the time(C) arrives,
    he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb.(D)

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