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,