Hosea 13

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.

Now they sin more and more,

Therefore they will be like the morning mist,

“Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt;

I knew you in the wilderness,

According to their pasture, so were they filled;

Therefore I am like a lion to them.

I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs,

You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me,

Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities?

I have given you a king in my anger,

The guilt of Ephraim is stored up.

The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol.

Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come,

Samaria will bear her guilt,