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Hosea 13:9-16

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9It is to your own destruction, Israel,

That you are against Me, against your help.

10Where then is your king,

That he might save you in all your cities;

And your judges, to whom you said,

“Give me a king and princes”?

11I gave you a king in My anger,

And took him away in My wrath.

12The guilt of Ephraim is wrapped up;

His sin is stored up.

13The pains of childbirth come on him;

He is not a wise son,

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

14Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol?

Shall I redeem them from death?

Death, where are your thorns?

Sheol, where is your sting?

Compassion will be hidden from My sight.

15Though he flourishes among the reeds,

An east wind will come,

The wind of the Lord coming up from the wilderness;

And his fountain will become dry

And his spring will dry up;

It will plunder his treasury of every precious article.

16Samaria will pay the penalty for her guilt,

Because she has rebelled against her God.

They will fall by the sword,

Their children will be slaughtered,

And their pregnant women will be ripped open.