12 and Hazael asked, “Why is my lord weeping?”

He replied, “Because I know the evil you will do to the people of Israel. You will set their fortresses on fire. You will kill their young men with the sword. You will dash their little ones to pieces. You will rip open their pregnant women.”(A)

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16 [a]Samaria(A) will bear her guilt(B)
because she has rebelled against her God.(C)
They will fall by the sword;(D)
their little ones will be dashed to pieces,(E)
and their pregnant women ripped open.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:16 Hs 14:1 in Hb

13 The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing the Ammonites(A)
for three crimes, even four,
because they ripped open
the pregnant women of Gilead(B)
in order to enlarge their territory.(C)

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