Hosea 13:14-16

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁴ Should I ransom them from the power of Sheol (the place of the dead)? Should I redeem them from death? ^[a]O death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your destruction? Relenting and compassion are hidden from My eyes.^(A)

¹⁵ For though among his brethren [his fellow tribes] he may be fruitful, an east wind [Assyria] will come, the breath of the Lord rising from the desert; and Ephraim’s spring shall become dry and his fountain be dried up. [Assyria] shall plunder his treasury of every precious vessel.

¹⁶ Samaria shall bear her guilt and become desolate, for she rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women shall be ripped up.