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Hosea 13:9
9I will destroy you, O Israel! Who is there to help you?
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 pounce on them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk by the path. 8I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs – I will rip open their chests. I will devour them there like a lion – like a wild animal would tear them apart. I will destroy you, O Israel! Who is there to help you? 10Where then is your king, that he may save you in all your cities? Where are your rulers for whom you asked, saying, “Give me a king and princes”? 11I granted you a king in my anger, and I will take him away in my wrath!
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שִֽׁחֶתְךָ֥ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל כִּֽי־בִ֥י בְעֶזְרֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Hosea 13:9
- Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sin has been your downfall!
- 2 Kings 17:7This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods;
- Proverbs 6:32A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks wisdom, whoever does it destroys his own life.
- Proverbs 8:36But the one who does not find me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death.”
- Isaiah 3:9The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Too bad for them! For they bring disaster on themselves.
- Jeremiah 2:17You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the Lord your God when he was leading you along the right path.
- Jeremiah 4:18“The way you have lived and the things you have done will bring this on you. This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.”
- Jeremiah 5:25Your misdeeds have stopped these things from coming. Your sins have deprived you of my bounty.’
- Malachi 1:9But now plead for God’s favor that he might be gracious to us. “With this kind of offering in your hands, how can he be pleased with you?” asks the Lord who rules over all.
- Hosea 13:4But I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt. Therefore, you must not acknowledge any God but me; except me there is no Savior.
- Deuteronomy 33:26There is no one like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the sky to help you, on the clouds in majesty.
- Psalms 33:20We wait for the Lord; he is our deliverer and shield.
- Psalms 46:1God is our strong refuge; he is truly our helper in times of trouble.
- Psalms 121:1I look up toward the hills. From where does my help come?
- Psalms 146:5How blessed is the one whose helper 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 heavenly realms 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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