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11 I gave you a king in my anger,
    and I took him away in my wrath.(A)

12 Ephraim’s iniquity is bound up;
    his sin is kept in store.(B)
13 The pangs of childbirth come for him,
    but he is an unwise son,
for at the proper time he does not present himself
    at the mouth of the womb.(C)

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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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