Hosea 13:9

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“You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me— against your helper.”

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BSBPD

“You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me— against your helper.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“It is thy destruction, O Israel, that thou art against me, against thy help.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And I consume them there as a lioness, A beast of the field doth rend them.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Hosea 13:9 — 23 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 33:26“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
  2. Deuteronomy 33:29Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”
  3. 2 Kings 17:7All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods
  4. 2 Chronicles 28:23Since Damascus had defeated him, he sacrificed to their gods and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But these gods were the downfall of Ahaz and of all Israel.
  5. Psalms 33:20Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.
  6. Psalms 46:1God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.
  7. Psalms 121:1I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
  8. Psalms 146:5Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
  9. Proverbs 6:32He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
  10. Proverbs 8:36But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
  11. Isaiah 3:9The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.
  12. Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
  13. Jeremiah 2:17Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
  14. Jeremiah 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
  15. Jeremiah 4:18“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
  16. Jeremiah 5:25Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
  17. Hosea 7:14They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.
  18. Hosea 7:15Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.
  19. 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.
  20. Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
  21. Malachi 1:9“But ask now for God’s favor. Will He be gracious? Since this has come from your hands, will He show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.
  22. Ephesians 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
  23. Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

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