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Hosea 13:9
9I will destroy you, Israel; you have no help but me.
Hosea 13:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.
- New International Version (NIV)“You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your helper.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He destroys you, O Israel, for you are against me, against your helper.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“O Israel, you are destroyed, But your help is from Me.
Context of Hosea 13:9
7So I will be like a lion to them; I will lurk like a leopard on the path. 8I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs and tear open the rib cage over their hearts. I will devour them there like a lioness, like a wild beast that would rip them open. I will destroy you, Israel; you have no help but me. 10Where now is your king, that he may save you in all your cities, and the rulers you demanded, saying, “Give me a king and leaders”? 11I give you a king in my anger and take away a king in my wrath.
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שִֽׁחֶתְךָ֥ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל כִּֽי־בִ֥י בְעֶזְרֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Hosea 13:9
- Hosea 14:1Israel, return to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.
- 2 Kings 17:7This disaster happened because the people of Israel sinned against the Lord their God who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt and because they worshiped other gods.
- Proverbs 6:32The one who commits adultery lacks sense; whoever does so destroys himself.
- Proverbs 8:36but the one who misses me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
- Isaiah 3:9The look on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom, they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster on themselves.
- Jeremiah 2:17Have you not brought this on yourself by abandoning the Lord your God while he was leading you along the way?
- Jeremiah 4:18Your way and your actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. It is very bitter, because it has reached your heart!
- Jeremiah 5:25Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you. Your sins have withheld my bounty from you,
- Malachi 1:9“And now plead for God’s favor. Will he be gracious to us? Since this has come from your hands, will he show any of you favor?” asks the Lord of Armies.
- Hosea 13:4I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and no Savior exists besides me.
- Deuteronomy 33:26There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, the clouds in his majesty.
- Psalms 33:20We wait for the Lord; he is our help and shield.
- Psalms 46:1God is our refuge and strength, a helper who is always found in times of trouble.
- Psalms 121:1I lift my eyes toward the mountains. Where will my help come from?
- Psalms 146:5Happy is the one whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,
- Ephesians 1:3Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ.
Commentaries on Hosea 13:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself - These evils come not by my immediate infliction; they are the consequences of thy own crimes. In the above terrifying figures of the ferocious beasts, the prophet only shows what they would meet with from the hand of the Assyrians in the war, the famine, and the captivity; God being represented as doing what he only permits to be done. But in me is thine help - "Though thou hast destroyed thyself, yet in me alone…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in Me is thy help - This is one of the concise sayings of Hosea, which is capable of many shades of meaning. The five words, one by one, are literally, “Israel, thy destruction, for” or “that, in” or “against Me, in” or “against thy help.” Something must be supplied any way; the simplest seems; “O Israel, thy destruction” is, “that” thou hast been, hast rebelled “against Me, against thy help”. Yet, in whatever…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-16Verses 9-16 Israel had destroyed himself by his rebellion; but he could not save himself, his help was from the Lord only. This may well be applied to the case of spiritual redemption, from that lost state into which all have fallen by wilful sins. God often gives in displeasure what we sinfully desire. It is the happiness of the saints, that, whether God gives or takes away, all is in love. But it is the misery of the wicked, that, whether God gives or…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9Me … your helper: See Psalms 70:5; 115:9; 121:2; 124:8. Israel's sin had turned their helper into their destroyer.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. thou ... in me--in contrast. hast destroyed thyself--that is, thy destruction is of thyself (Pr 6:32; 8:36). in me is thine help--literally, "in thine help" (compare De 33:26). Hadst thou rested thy hope in Me, I would have been always ready at hand for thy help [Grotius].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Hosea 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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