Hosea 13:9

You have destroyed yourself, O Israel, || But in Me [is] your help;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.

In Context

8I meet them as a bereaved bear, || And I tear the enclosure of their heart, || And I consume them there as a lioness, || A beast of the field tears them.

10Where [is] your king now—And he saves you in all your cities? And your judges of whom you said, || Give a king and heads to me?

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:26[There is] none like the God of Yeshurun, || Riding the heavens to your help, || And in His excellence the skies.

2 Kings 17:7And it comes to pass, because the sons of Israel have sinned against their God YHWH—who brings them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt—and fear other gods,

Psalms 33:20Our soul has waited for YHWH, || He [is] our help and our shield,

Psalms 121:1A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. I lift up my eyes to the hills, || From where does my help come?

Proverbs 6:32He who commits adultery [with] a woman lacks heart, || He who does it is destroying his soul.

Isaiah 3:9The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, || And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, || They have not hidden! Woe to their soul, || For they have done evil to themselves.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 13:6-9

Ingratitude of Israel. ( b. c. 722.) 5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me. 7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: 8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. We may observe here,… Read the whole commentary →

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