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12 (A)Even if they bring up children,
    I will bereave them till none is left.
(B)Woe to them
    when (C)I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, (D)as I have seen, was like a young palm[a] planted in a meadow;
    but (E)Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:13 Or like Tyre
  2. Hosea 9:13 Hebrew to him who slaughters