Hosea 13:5

I, tended thee in the desert,—in a land parched with drought:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4Yet, I, Yahweh, have been thy God from the land of Egypt,—and, god beside me, shalt thou not acknowledge, for, saviour, is there none besides me.

6Whenever they were pastured, then were they satisfied, They were satisfied, and their heart, was lifted up,—because of this, they forgat me.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 2:7For Yahweh thy God, hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand, he hath considered thy traversing of this great desert,—these forty years, hath Yahweh thy God been with thee, thou hast lacked, nothing.

Deuteronomy 32:10He met him in a desert land, And in the howling waste of a wilderness,—He encompassed him watched over him, Shielded him as the pupil of his own eye.

Psalms 31:7I will indeed exult and rejoice, in thy lovingkindness,—In that thou hast looked upon my humiliation, thou hast taken note that in distresses was my life;

Psalms 142:3When my spirit fainted concerning myself, then, thou, didst take note of my path,—In the course which I was about to take, they had hidden a snare for me.

Jeremiah 2:6Neither said they, Where is Yahweh, Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,—Who led us Through the desert, Through a land of wastes and clefts, Through a land of parched places and of death-shade, Through a land, Along which no man had passed, And in which no son of earth dwelt?

Hosea 9:10Like grapes in the desert, found I Israel, like the first-ripe in the fig-tree when it is young, saw I your fathers,—they, entered Baal-peor, and devoted themselves to the Shameful Thing, Then became their abominations like their lusts.

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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