Hosea 13:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?”
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“Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Thou hast destroyed thyself, O Israel, But in Me <FI>is<Fi> thy help, Where <FI>is<Fi> thy king now--And he doth save thee in all thy cities? And thy judges of whom thou didst say, `Give to me a king and heads?'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Hosea 13:10 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:37He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
- Judges 2:16Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.
- 1 Samuel 8:5“Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”
- 1 Samuel 8:7And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.
- 1 Samuel 8:19Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.
- 1 Samuel 12:11So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.
- 1 Kings 12:20When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.
- 2 Kings 17:4But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.
- Psalms 10:16The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations perish from His land.
- Psalms 44:4You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
- Psalms 47:6Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises!
- Psalms 74:12Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.
- Psalms 89:18Surely our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
- Psalms 149:2Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.
- Isaiah 33:22For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.
- Isaiah 43:15I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, and your King.”
- Jeremiah 2:28But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
- Jeremiah 8:19Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
- Lamentations 4:20The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”
- Hosea 8:4They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.
- Hosea 10:3Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”
- Hosea 13:4Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me.
- Zechariah 14:9On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth—the LORD alone, and His name alone.
- John 1:49“Rabbi,” Nathanael answered, “You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”
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