Hosea 13:4-15

New International Version

⁴ “But I have been the Lord your God
    ever since you came out of Egypt.^(A)
You shall acknowledge^(B) no God but me,^(C)
    no Savior^(D) except me.
⁵ I cared for you in the wilderness,^(E)
    in the land of burning heat.
⁶ When I fed them, they were satisfied;
    when they were satisfied, they became proud;^(F)
    then they forgot^(G) me.^(H)
7 So I will be like a lion^(I) to them,
    like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
⁸ Like a bear robbed of her cubs,^(J)
    I will attack them and rip them open;
like a lion^(K) I will devour them—
    a wild animal will tear them apart.^(L)

⁹ “You are destroyed, Israel,
    because you are against me,^(M) against your helper.^(N)
10 Where is your king,^(O) that he may save you?
    Where are your rulers in all your towns,
of whom you said,
    ‘Give me a king and princes’?^(P)
11 So in my anger I gave you a king,^(Q)
    and in my wrath I took him away.^(R)
12 The guilt of Ephraim is stored up,
    his sins are kept on record.^(S)
13 Pains as of a woman in childbirth^(T) come to him,
    but he is a child without wisdom;
when the time^(U) arrives,
    he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb.^(V)

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

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