Hosea 13:10-16 ▼

10 Where [is] your king now—And he saves you in all your cities? And your judges of whom you said, || Give a king and heads to me?

11 I give to you a king in My anger, || And I take away in My wrath.

12 Bound up [is] the iniquity of Ephraim, || Hidden [is] his sin,

13 Pangs of a travailing woman come to him, || He [is] not a wise son, || For he does not remain [at] the time for the breaking forth of sons.

14 Will I ransom them from the hand of Sheol? Will I redeem them from death? Where [is] your plague, O death? Where your destruction, O Sheol? Comfort is hid from My eyes.

15 Though he produces fruit among brothers, || An east wind comes in, a wind of YHWH, || From a wilderness it is coming up, || And it dries up his fountain, || And his spring becomes dry, || It—it spoils a treasure—every desirable vessel.

16 Samaria becomes desolate, || Because she has been rebellious against her God, || They fall by sword, || Their sucklings are dashed in pieces, || And its pregnant ones are ripped up!”