Hosea 13:9

I will destroy you, Israel; 1 who will be able to help you? 1

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

In Context

8I will attack them as a bear that is robbed of her cubs. 1 I will rip open their chests, 1 and there I will devour them as a lion, 1 as a wild beast would tear them to pieces. 1

10Where now is your king, 1 that he may save you in all your cities? 1 Where are your rulers, about whom you said to me, 1 'Give me a king and princes'? 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:26There is no one like God, Jeshurun—the upright one, 1 who rides through the heavens to your help, 1 and in his majesty on the clouds. 1

2 Kings 17:7This captivity happened because the people of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. The people had been worshiping other gods

Psalms 33:20We wait for Yahweh; 1 he is our help and our shield. 1

Psalms 121:1I will lift up my eyes to the mountains. 1 From where will my help come? 1

Proverbs 6:32The one who commits adultery has no sense; 1 the one who does it destroys himself. 1

Isaiah 3:9The look on their faces witnesses against them; and they tell of their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. 1 Woe to them! For they have completed a catastrophe for themselves. 1

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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