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14 Will I save them from the place of the dead?
    Will I rescue them from death?
Where is your sickness, death?
    Where is your pain, place of death?
    I will show them no mercy.
15 Israel is doing well among the nations,
    but the Lord will send a wind from the east,
coming from the desert,
    that will dry up his springs and wells of water.
He will destroy from their treasure houses everything of value.
16 The nation of Israel will be ruined,
    because it fought against God.
The people of Israel will die in war;
    their children will be torn to pieces,
    and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”

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

“I will have no compassion,
15     even though he thrives(D) among his brothers.
An east wind(E) from the Lord will come,
    blowing in from the desert;
his spring will fail
    and his well dry up.(F)
His storehouse will be plundered(G)
    of all its treasures.
16 The people of Samaria(H) must bear their guilt,(I)
    because they have rebelled(J) against their God.
They will fall by the sword;(K)
    their little ones will be dashed(L) to the ground,
    their pregnant women(M) ripped open.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:16 In Hebrew texts this verse (13:16) is numbered 14:1.