Hosea 13:9–16

9 It is your destruction, O Israel,

1That you are aagainst Me, against your bhelp.

10 Where now is your aking

That he may save you in all your cities,

And your bjudges of whom you 1requested,

“Give me a king and princes”?

11 I agave you a king in My anger

And btook him away in My wrath.

12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;

His sin is astored up.

13 The pains of achildbirth come upon him;

He is bnot a wise son,

For 1it is not the time that he should cdelay at the opening of the womb.

14 Shall I aransom them from the 1power of Sheol?

Shall I redeem them from death?

bO Death, where are your thorns?

O Sheol, where is your sting?

cCompassion will be hidden from My sight.

15 Though he aflourishes among the 1reeds,

An beast wind will come,

The wind of the Lord coming up from the wilderness;

And his fountain will cbecome dry

And his spring will be dried up;

It will dplunder his treasury of every precious article.

16 1Samaria will be held aguilty,

For she has brebelled against her God.

cThey will fall by the dsword,

Their little ones will be edashed in pieces,

And their pregnant fwomen will be ripped open.