⁹ “You are destroyed, Israel,
    because you are against me,^(A) against your helper.^(B)
10 Where is your king,^(C) that he may save you?
    Where are your rulers in all your towns,
of whom you said,
    ‘Give me a king and princes’?^(D)
11 So in my anger I gave you a king,^(E)
    and in my wrath I took him away.^(F)
12 The guilt of Ephraim is stored up,
    his sins are kept on record.^(G)
13 Pains as of a woman in childbirth^(H) come to him,
    but he is a child without wisdom;
when the time^(I) arrives,
    he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb.^(J)

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

“I will have no compassion,
¹⁵     even though he thrives^(N) among his brothers.
An east wind^(O) from the Lord will come,
    blowing in from the desert;
his spring will fail
    and his well dry up.^(P)
His storehouse will be plundered^(Q)
    of all its treasures.
¹⁶ The people of Samaria^(R) must bear their guilt,^(S)
    because they have rebelled^(T) against their God.
They will fall by the sword;^(U)
    their little ones will be dashed^(V) to the ground,
    their pregnant women^(W) ripped open.”^[a]