Hosea 13:14

I certainly will not [RHQ] save you from being killed and from going to the place where the dead people are. I will [RHQ] cause you to be afflicted by plagues and to die and be buried in graves. I will not be merciful to you.

Translation for Translators

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

13You people are not wise; and now you are helpless. You are like [MET] a woman who is having birth pains but who is unable to give birth to the baby.

15Even if you people of Israel prosper more than the nearby nations do, the army of Assyria will come like [MET] an east wind that blows from the desert; the springs and wells in Israel will become dry; and your enemies will take away all your valuable possessions.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 15:29And since the one who is the glorious God of the Israeli people does not lie, he will not change ◄his mind/what he has said►. Humans sometimes change their minds, but God does not do that, because he is not a human.”

Job 33:24The angel is kind to us and says to God, ‘Release that person, so that he does not descend to the place where dead people are! Do that because I have found the money to pay so that he can be released!

Psalms 16:10because you, Yahweh, will not allow my soul/spirit to remain in the place where the dead people are; you will not allow me, your godly one, to stay there.

Psalms 49:15But it is certain that God will rescue me so that I am not kept in the place of the dead. (Think about that!)

Psalms 71:20You have caused me to have many troubles and to suffer much, but you will cause me to become strong again; when I am almost dead [HYP], you will keep me alive.

Isaiah 25:8He will get rid of death forever! Yahweh our God will cause people to no longer mourn because someone has died. And he will stop other people insulting and making fun of his land and us his people. That will surely happen because Yahweh has said it!

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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