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13 Labor pains will come for him,
    but he is not a wise son,
    for when the time arrives,
    he is not ready to be born.

14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave![a]
    I will redeem them from death!
    Death, where are your plagues?
    Grave, where is your destruction?

    Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
15 Although he flourishes as a son among brothers,[b]
    an east wind will come.
    The breath[c] of the Lord is coming up from the wilderness.
    His spring will become dry.
    His fountain will be dried up.
    His treasury will be plundered of every precious article.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:14 Hebrew sheol
  2. Hosea 13:15 Or among the reeds. The translation above is a literal rendering of the Hebrew.
  3. Hosea 13:15 Or wind