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Israel's Terrible Fate

The Lord said:

12 Israel, your terrible sins
are written down
    and stored away.
13 You are like a senseless child
who refuses to be born
    at the proper time.
14 (A) Should I, the Lord, rescue you
    from death and the grave?
No! I call death and the grave
to strike you like a plague.
    I refuse to show mercy.

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12 The guilt of Ephraim is stored up,
    his sins are kept on record.(A)
13 Pains as of a woman in childbirth(B) come to him,
    but he is a child without wisdom;
when the time(C) arrives,
    he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb.(D)

14 “I will deliver this people from the power of the grave;(E)
    I will redeem them from death.(F)
Where, O death, are your plagues?
    Where, O grave, is your destruction?(G)

“I will have no compassion,

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