How can I give you up, Ephraim?(A)
How can I surrender you, Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?(B)
How can I treat you like Zeboiim?(C)
I have had a change of heart;
my compassion is stirred!

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“How can I give you up,(A) Ephraim?(B)
    How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I treat you like Admah?
    How can I make you like Zeboyim?(C)
My heart is changed within me;
    all my compassion(D) is aroused.(E)

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10 Writhe and cry out,[a](A) Daughter Zion,
like a woman in labor,
for now you will leave the city(B)
and camp in the open fields.
You will go to Babylon;
there you will be rescued;(C)
there the Lord will redeem you(D)
from the grasp of your enemies!

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Footnotes

  1. 4:10 Hb obscure

10 Writhe in agony, Daughter Zion,
    like a woman in labor,
for now you must leave the city
    to camp in the open field.
You will go to Babylon;(A)
    there you will be rescued.
There the Lord will redeem(B) you
    out of the hand of your enemies.

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13 Then the earth will become a wasteland(A)
because of its inhabitants
and as a result of their actions.(B)

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13 The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants,
    as the result of their deeds.(A)

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