Hosea 13:9

Hosea 13:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)“You are about to be destroyed, O Israel— yes, by me, your only helper.

Context of Hosea 13:9

7So I will be like a lion to them, like a leopard I will lurk by the path. 8Like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will attack them and rip them open; like a lion I will devour them— a wild animal will tear them apart. “You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your helper. 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.

Hosea 13:9 word by word

שִֽׁחֶתְךָ֥ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל כִּֽי־בִ֥י בְעֶזְרֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• O Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• thou hast destroyedשָׁחַתshâchath · to ruinH7843
• thine helpעֵ֫זֶר‛êzer · helperH5828

Cross-references for Hosea 13:9

• Hosea 14:1Return, Israel, to the Lord your God. Your sins have been your downfall!
• 2 Kings 17:7All this took place because the Israelites had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of Egypt from under the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods
• Proverbs 6:32But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.
• Proverbs 8:36But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death.”
• Isaiah 3:9The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
• Jeremiah 2:17Have you not brought this on yourselves by forsaking the Lord your God when he led you in the way?
• Jeremiah 4:18“Your own conduct and actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. How bitter it is! How it pierces to the heart!”
• Jeremiah 5:25Your wrongdoings have kept these away; your sins have deprived you of good.
• Malachi 1:9“Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?”—says the Lord Almighty.
• Hosea 13:4“But I have been the Lord your God ever since you came out of Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me.
• Deuteronomy 33:26“There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides across the heavens to help you and on the clouds in his majesty.
• Psalms 33:20We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield.
• Psalms 46:1God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
• Psalms 121:1I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from?
• Psalms 146:5Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God.
• Ephesians 1:3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing 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

Topics related to Hosea 13:9

• Sin

In the dictionaries

• Israel
• Israel, Israelites
• Jacob, Israel
• Ransom
• Hosea
• Zechariah, Book of

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