Hosea 13:5

I tended thee as a shepherd in the wilderness, in an uninhabited land.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

In Context

4But I am the Lord thy God that establishes the heaven, and creates the earth, whose hands have framed the whole host of heaven: but I showed them not to thee that thou shouldest go after them: and I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me; and there is no Savior beside me.

6According to their pastures, so they were completely filled; and their hearts were exalted; therefore they forgot me.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 2:7For the Lord our God has blessed thee in every work of thy hands. Consider how thou wentest through that great and terrible wilderness: behold, the Lord thy God has been with thee forty years; thou didst not lack anything.

Deuteronomy 32:10He maintained him in the wilderness, 1 In burning thirst and a dry land: 1 He led him about and instructed him, 1 And kept him as the apple of an eye. 1

Psalms 31:7Thou art my refuge from the affliction that encompasses me; 1 My joy, to deliver me from them that have compassed me. Pause. 1

Psalms 142:3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; 1 He has brought my life down to the ground; 1 He has made me to dwell in a dark place, as those that have been long dead. 1

Jeremiah 2:6And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man dwelt there?

Hosea 9:10I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig tree: they went in to Baal-peor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 13:2-5

Reproofs and Threatenings. ( b. c. 722.) 1 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. 2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the… Read the whole commentary →

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