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13 They have the opportunity to live again,
    but they are not smart enough to take it.
    They are like a baby who is about to be born
    but won’t come out of its mother’s womb.

14 “I want to free them from the power of the grave.
    I want to reclaim them from death.
    Death, I want to be a plague to you.
        Grave, I want to destroy you.[a]
            I won’t even think of changing my plans.”

15 The people of Ephraim have become important among their relatives.
    However, Yahweh’s scorching wind will come from the east.
        It will blow out of the desert.
            Then their springs will run dry,
                and their wells will dry up.
        The wind will destroy every precious thing in their storehouses.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:14 Or “Death, where is your plague? Grave, where is your destruction?”
  2. Hosea 13:15 Hosea 13:16 in English Bibles is Hosea 14:1 in the Hebrew Bible.

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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