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11 I give you a king in my anger,
    and I take him away in my wrath.[a]

12 The guilt of Ephraim is wrapped up,
    his sin is stored away.
13 [b]The birth pangs will come for him,(A)
    but this is an unwise child,
Who, when it is time, does not present himself
    at the mouth of the womb.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:11 I give you a king…in my wrath: the Lord punished the people of the Northern Kingdom by giving them kings who were soon deposed (see notes on 7:3–7 and 8:4).
  2. 13:13 Ephraim will die along with its stored-up sin, just as a mother dies along with a child that she cannot deliver.

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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