Hosea 13:13-15
GOD’S WORD Translation
13 They have the opportunity to live again,
but they are not smart enough to take it.
They are like a baby who is about to be born
but won’t come out of its mother’s womb.
14 “I want to free them from the power of the grave.
I want to reclaim them from death.
Death, I want to be a plague to you.
Grave, I want to destroy you.[a]
I won’t even think of changing my plans.”
15 The people of Ephraim have become important among their relatives.
However, the Lord’s scorching wind will come from the east.
It will blow out of the desert.
Then their springs will run dry,
and their wells will dry up.
The wind will destroy every precious thing in their storehouses.[b]
Footnotes
- 13:14 Or “Death, where is your plague? Grave, where is your destruction?”
- 13:15 Hosea 13:16 in English Bibles is Hosea 14:1 in the Hebrew Bible.
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