Hosea 13:9-16

9It is your destruction, O Israel, 1That you are 2against Me, against your 3help.10Where now is your 4king That he may save you in all your cities, And your 5judges of whom you 6requested, “Give me a king and princes”?11I 7gave you a king in My anger And 8took him away in My wrath.

12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; His sin is 9stored up.13The pains of 10childbirth come upon him; He is 11not a wise son, For 12it is not the time that he should 13delay at the opening of the womb.14Shall I 14ransom them from the 15power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from death? 16O Death, where are your thorns? O Sheol, where is your sting? 17Compassion will be hidden from My sight.

15Though he 18flourishes among the 19reeds, An 20east wind will come, The wind of the Lord coming up from the wilderness; And his fountain will 21become dry And his spring will be dried up; It will 22plunder his treasury of every precious article.1623Samaria will be held 24guilty, For she has 25rebelled against her God. 26They will fall by the 27sword, Their little ones will be 28dashed in pieces, And their pregnant 29women will be ripped open.