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12 The guilt of Ephraim is stored up.
    His sin is stored up.
13 The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him.
    He is an unwise son;
    for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the opening of the womb.
14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol.[a]
    I will redeem them from death!
    Death, where are your plagues?
    Sheol, where is your destruction?

“Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. 13:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.

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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