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11 I gave you a king in my anger,
        and I took him away in my wrath.
12 Ephraim’s wickedness is bound up;
        his sin is kept in store.
13 The pangs of a woman in childbirth come for him,
        but he is not aware of the time to be born;
    for at the proper time he doesn’t present himself
        at the mouth of the womb.

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11 So in my anger I gave you a king,(A)
    and in my wrath I took him away.(B)
12 The guilt of Ephraim is stored up,
    his sins are kept on record.(C)
13 Pains as of a woman in childbirth(D) come to him,
    but he is a child without wisdom;
when the time(E) arrives,
    he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb.(F)

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