Hosea 13:14

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“I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.”

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BSBPD

“I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from death: O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy destruction? repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where <FI>is<Fi> thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Hosea 13:14 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
  2. 1 Samuel 15:29Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
  3. Job 19:25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
  4. Job 33:24to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’
  5. Job 41:22Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
  6. Psalms 16:10For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
  7. Psalms 30:3O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
  8. Psalms 49:15But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah
  9. Psalms 49:16Do not be amazed when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases.
  10. Psalms 71:20Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
  11. Psalms 86:13For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
  12. Isaiah 25:8He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
  13. Isaiah 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
  14. Jeremiah 15:6You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.
  15. Ezekiel 37:11Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
  16. Ezekiel 37:12Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.
  17. Hosea 6:2After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
  18. Hosea 7:10Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him.
  19. Malachi 3:6“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
  20. Romans 11:15For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
  21. Romans 11:29For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.
  22. 1 Corinthians 15:21For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
  23. 1 Corinthians 15:52in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
  24. 2 Corinthians 5:4So while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.

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