11 I give you a king in my anger(A)
and take away a king in my wrath.(B)
12 Ephraim’s guilt is preserved;
his sin is stored up.(C)
13 Labor pains come on him.(D)
He is not a wise son;(E)
when the time comes,
he will not be born.[a](F)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:13 Lit he will not present himself at the opening of the womb for sons

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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