12 (A)Even if they bring up children,
    I will bereave them till none is left.
(B)Woe to them
    when (C)I depart from them!

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13 (A)Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
    Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
(B)I would redeem them,
    but (C)they speak lies against me.

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16 Ephraim is stricken;
    (A)their root is dried up;
    they shall bear no fruit.
Even (B)though they give birth,
    (C)I will put their beloved children to death.

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25 (A)Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
    and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
    the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

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17 Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and (A)I will forsake them and (B)hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, (C)‘Have not these evils come upon us because (D)our God is not among us?’

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13 Ephraim, (A)as I have seen, was like a young palm[a] planted in a meadow;
    but (B)Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:13 Or like Tyre
  2. Hosea 9:13 Hebrew to him who slaughters

(A)What will you do on the day of the appointed festival,
    and on the day of the feast of the Lord?
For behold, they are going away from destruction;
    but (B)Egypt shall gather them;
    Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess (C)their precious things of silver;
    (D)thorns shall be in their tents.

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20 Look, O Lord, and see!
    (A)With whom have you dealt thus?
(B)Should women eat the fruit of their womb,
    the children of (C)their tender care?
Should (D)priest and prophet be killed
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who fathered them in this land: (A)They shall die of deadly diseases. (B)They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. (C)They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. (D)They shall perish by the sword and by famine, (E)and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.

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(A)I have winnowed them with (B)a winnowing fork
    in the gates of the land;
I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people;
    (C)they did not turn from their ways.

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14 If his (A)children are multiplied, it is for (B)the sword,
    and his descendants have not enough bread.

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23 until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, (A)as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. (B)So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.

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18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but (A)the tribe of Judah only.

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