Hosea 13:9
You people of Israel, you will be destroyed because you oppose me, the only one who ◄can help/helps► you.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:26“You people of Israel, there is no god like your God, who rides majestically across the sky to help you.
2 Kings 17:7Those things happened because the Israeli people had sinned against Yahweh their God. He had rescued their ancestors from the power [MTY] of the king of Egypt and brought them safely out of Egypt, but later they began to worship other gods.
Psalms 33:20We trust that Yahweh will help us; he protects us like a shield protects a soldier [MET].
Psalms 121:1When we travel toward Jerusalem, I look up toward the hills and I ask myself, “Who will help me?”
Proverbs 6:32But a man who commits adultery with some woman is very foolish, because he is destroying his own self/soul by what he is doing.
Isaiah 3:9They even show on their faces that they oppose Yahweh. They are proud of their sins, like the people of Sodom were long ago; they do not try to hide their sins. Because of their sins, terrible things will happen to them, but they will bring those disasters on 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 →