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10 Where now is your king,
    that he may rescue you?
And all your princes,
    that they may defend you?
Of whom you said,
    “Give me a king and princes”?(A)
11 I give you a king in my anger,
    and I take him away in my wrath.[a]

12 The guilt of Ephraim is wrapped up,
    his sin is stored away.

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Footnotes

  1. 13:11 I give you a king…in my wrath: the Lord punished the people of the Northern Kingdom by giving them kings who were soon deposed (see notes on 7:3–7 and 8:4).

10 Where is your king,(A) that he may save you?
    Where are your rulers in all your towns,
of whom you said,
    ‘Give me a king and princes’?(B)
11 So in my anger I gave you a king,(C)
    and in my wrath I took him away.(D)
12 The guilt of Ephraim is stored up,
    his sins are kept on record.(E)

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