Hosea 13:10
I want to rule you! Where are your princes in your cities, those of whom you demanded, ‘Give me kings and princes.’
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In Context
9You are destroyed, Israel, by me, your only helper.
11I give you kings in my anger, and take them away in my wrath.
Cross References
Psalms 44:4It was you, my king and my God, that ordained the victories of Jacob.
Psalms 74:12Yet God is our king from the ancient days, in the midst of the earth working deeds of salvation.
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 →