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13 Pains of birth come on him.
He is not a wise son.
When the time comes,
    he should not delay at the opening of the womb.
14 Should I ransom them from the hand of Sheol?
Should I redeem them from death?
O death, where are your plagues?
O Sheol, where is your sting?[a]
Comfort is hidden from My eyes.”

15 Because he is the son of kinsmen,
he should have been fruitful.
An east wind will come—the wind from Adonai,
    coming up from the wilderness.
His spring will become dry,
    and his fountain will dry up.
He will plunder the treasury
    of every precious vessel.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:14 cf. 1 Cor. 15:55.

13 Pains as of a woman in childbirth(A) come to him,
    but he is a child without wisdom;
when the time(B) arrives,
    he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb.(C)

14 “I will deliver this people from the power of the grave;(D)
    I will redeem them from death.(E)
Where, O death, are your plagues?
    Where, O grave, is your destruction?(F)

“I will have no compassion,
15     even though he thrives(G) among his brothers.
An east wind(H) from the Lord will come,
    blowing in from the desert;
his spring will fail
    and his well dry up.(I)
His storehouse will be plundered(J)
    of all its treasures.

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