10Where is your king, that he may save you?

Where are your rulers in all your towns,

of whom you said,

‘Give me a king and princes’?

11So in my anger I gave you a king,

and in my wrath I took him away.

12The guilt of Ephraim is stored up,

his sins are kept on record.

13Pains as of a woman in childbirth come to him,

but he is a child without wisdom;

when the time arrives,

he does not come to the opening of the womb.

14“I will ransom them from the power of the grave^c;

I will redeem them from death.

Where, O death, are your plagues?

Where, O grave,^d is your destruction?

“I will have no compassion,

15even though he thrives among his brothers.

An east wind from the Lord will come,

blowing in from the desert;

his spring will fail

and his well dry up.

His storehouse will be plundered

of all its treasures.

16The people of Samaria must bear their guilt,

because they have rebelled against their God.

They will fall by the sword;

their little ones will be dashed to the ground,

their pregnant women ripped open.”