Hosea 13:14

I shall redeem them from the power of Sheol; I shall deliver them from death. Where, death, are your plagues? Where, Sheol, is your destruction? Compassion is hidden from my sight.

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In The King James Version

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

In Context

13The pain of childbirth has come to them, trying to give birth to a son who is not “wise” because he is not in the right position when the time comes.

15Even though they flourish among the reeds, an east wind will come, a wind from the Lord that rises in the desert will dry up their springs and their wells will fail. It will rob from their treasury everything of value.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 15:29In addition, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind, for he is not a human being who changes his mind!”

Job 33:24he will be gracious to them. He will say, ‘Save them from going down into the grave, for I have found a way to free them.’

Psalms 16:10For you will not abandon me in the grave, nor will you allow your Holy One to experience decay.

Psalms 49:15But surely God will rescue me from the power of the grave; he will grab me back. Selah.

Psalms 71:20You had me face many troubles and plenty of misery, but you will bring me back to life; you will rise me up from the depths of the earth.

Isaiah 25:8He will destroy death forever. The Lord God will wipe away all tears, and everywhere he will take away the humiliation suffered by his people. The Lord has spoken.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 13:10-16

The Folly of Israel; Promises of Mercy. ( b. c. 722.) 9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. 10 I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? 11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. 12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid. 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the… Read the whole commentary →

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