Hosea 13:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.”
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BSBPD
“I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“I--I have known thee in a wilderness, In a land of droughts.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Hosea 13:5 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 2:25God saw the Israelites and took notice.
- Deuteronomy 2:7Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
- Deuteronomy 8:15He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
- Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
- Psalms 1:6For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
- Psalms 31:7I will be glad and rejoice in Your loving devotion, for You have seen my affliction; You have known the anguish of my soul.
- Psalms 63:1O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
- Psalms 142:3Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.
- Jeremiah 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
- Jeremiah 2:6They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
- Hosea 5:3I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.
- Hosea 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
- Nahum 1:7The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.
- 1 Corinthians 8:3But the one who loves God is known by God.
- Galatians 4:9But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
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