10 [a]I will be your King;
(A)Where is any other,
That he may save you in all your cities?
And your judges to whom (B)you said,
‘Give me a king and princes’?
11 (C)I gave you a king in My anger,
And took him away in My wrath.

12 “The(D) iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;
His sin is stored up.
13 (E)The sorrows of a woman in childbirth shall come upon him.
He is an unwise son,
For he should not stay long where children are born.

14 “I will ransom them from the [b]power of [c]the grave;
I will redeem them from death.
(F)O Death, [d]I will be your plagues!
O [e]Grave, [f]I will be your destruction!
(G)Pity is hidden from My eyes.”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:10 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. Where is your king?
  2. Hosea 13:14 Lit. hand
  3. Hosea 13:14 Or Sheol
  4. Hosea 13:14 LXX where is your punishment?
  5. Hosea 13:14 Or Sheol
  6. Hosea 13:14 LXX where is your sting?

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