⁴ But ^(A)I am the Lord your God
    from the land of Egypt;
^(B)you know no God but me,
    and ^(C)besides me there is no savior.
^5 (D)It was I who knew you in the wilderness,
    in the land of drought;
^6 (E)but when they had grazed,^[a] they became full,
    ^(F)they were filled, and their heart was lifted up;
    ^(G)therefore they forgot me.
⁷ So ^(H)I am to them like a lion;
    ^(I)like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
⁸ I will fall upon them ^(J)like a bear robbed of her cubs;
    I will tear open their breast,
and there I will devour them like a lion,
    ^(K)as a wild beast would rip them open.

⁹ He destroys^[b] you, O Israel,
    for you are against me, against ^(L)your helper.
^10 (M)Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities?
    Where are all your rulers—
those of whom ^(N)you said,
    “Give me a king and princes”?
^11 (O)I gave you a king in my anger,
    and ^(P)I took him away in my wrath.

¹² The iniquity of Ephraim is ^(Q)bound up;
    his sin is ^(R)kept in store.
^13 (S)The pangs of childbirth come for him,
    but he is an unwise son,
for at the right time he does not present himself
    ^(T)at the opening of the womb.

^14 (U)I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol;
    ^(V)I shall redeem them from Death.^[c]
(W)O ^(X)Death, where are your plagues?
    ^(Y)O ^(Z)Sheol, where is your sting?
    ^(AA)Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

¹⁵ Though ^(AB)he may flourish among his brothers,
    ^(AC)the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come,
    rising from the wilderness,
^(AD)and his fountain shall dry up;
    his spring shall be parched;
it shall strip ^(AE)his treasury
    of every precious thing.
^16 [d] Samaria ^(AF)shall bear her guilt,
    because ^(AG)she has rebelled against her God;
they shall fall by the sword;
    ^(AH)their little ones shall be dashed in pieces,
    and their ^(AI)pregnant women ripped open.

⁴ I ^(AR)will heal their apostasy;
    ^(AS)I will love them freely,
    for my anger has turned from them.