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.
• 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 Living Translation (NLT)“You are about to be destroyed, O Israel— yes, by me, your only helper.

Context of Hosea 13:9

7“So I will be to them like a lion; Like a leopard by the road I will lurk; 8I will meet them like a bear deprived of her cubs; I will tear open their rib cage, And there I will devour them like a lion. The wild beast shall tear them. “O Israel, you are destroyed, But your help is from Me. 10I will be your King; Where is any other, That he may save you in all your cities? And your judges to whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’? 11I gave you a king in My anger, And took him away in My wrath.

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 14:1O Israel, return to the Lord your God, For you have stumbled because of your iniquity;
• 2 Kings 17:7For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had feared other gods,
• Proverbs 6:32Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; He who does so destroys his own soul.
• Proverbs 8:36But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; All those who hate me love death.”
• Isaiah 3:9The look on their countenance witnesses against them, And they declare their sin as Sodom; They do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought evil upon themselves.
• Jeremiah 2:17Have you not brought this on yourself, In that you have forsaken the Lord your God When He led you in the way?
• Jeremiah 4:18“Your ways and your doings Have procured these things for you. This is your wickedness, Because it is bitter, Because it reaches to your heart.”
• Jeremiah 5:25Your iniquities have turned these things away, And your sins have withheld good from you.
• Malachi 1:9“But now entreat God’s favor, That He may be gracious to us. While this is being done by your hands, Will He accept you favorably?” Says the Lord of hosts.
• Hosea 13:4“Yet I am the Lord your God Ever since the land of Egypt, And you shall know no God but Me; For there is no savior besides Me.
• Deuteronomy 33:26“There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, Who rides the heavens to help you, And in His excellency on the clouds.
• Psalms 33:20Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help and our shield.
• Psalms 46:1God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
• Psalms 121:1I will lift up my eyes to the hills— From whence comes my help?
• Psalms 146:5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the Lord his God,
• Ephesians 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places 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
• 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