Hosea 13:7-16

7 So I will be 1like a lion to them; Like a 2leopard I will lie in wait by the wayside.
8 I will encounter them 3like a bear robbed of her cubs, And I will tear open their chests *; There I will also 4devour them like a lioness, As a wild beast would tear them.
9 It is your destruction, O Israel, That you are 5against Me, against your 6help.
10 Where now is your 7king That he may save you in all your cities, And your 8judges of whom you requested, "Give me a king and princes "?
11 I 9gave you a king in My anger And 10took him away in My wrath.
12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; His sin is 11stored up.
13 The pains of 12childbirth come upon him; He is 13not a wise son, For it is not the time that he should 14delay at the opening * of the womb.
14 Shall I 15ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from death? 16O Death, where are your thorns? O Sheol, where is your sting? 17Compassion will be hidden from My sight.
15 Though he 18flourishes among the reeds, An 19east wind will come, The wind of the LORD coming up from the wilderness; And his fountain will 20become dry And his spring will be dried up; It will 21plunder his treasury of every precious article.
16 Samaria will be held 22guilty, For she has 23rebelled against her God. 24They will fall by the 25sword, Their little ones will be 26dashed in pieces, And their pregnant 27women will be ripped open.

Cross References 27

  • 1. Lamentations 3:10; Hosea 5:14
  • 2. Jeremiah 5:6
  • 3. 2 Samuel 17:8
  • 4. Psalms 50:22
  • 5. Jeremiah 2:17, 19; Malachi 1:12, 13
  • 6. Deuteronomy 33:26, 29
  • 7. 2 Kings 17:4; Hosea 8:4
  • 8. 1 Samuel 8:5, 6
  • 9. 1 Samuel 8:7; 1 Samuel 10:17-24
  • 10. 1 Samuel 15:26; 1 Kings 14:7-10; Hosea 10:7
  • 11. Deuteronomy 32:34, 35; Job 14:17; Romans 2:5
  • 12. Isaiah 13:8; Micah 4:9, 10
  • 13. Deuteronomy 32:6; Hosea 5:4
  • 14. Isaiah 37:3; Isaiah 66:9
  • 15. Psalms 49:15; Ezekiel 37:12, 13
  • 16. 1 Corinthians 15:55
  • 17. Jeremiah 20:16; Jeremiah 31:35-37
  • 18. Genesis 49:22; Hosea 10:1
  • 19. Genesis 41:6; Jeremiah 4:11, 12; Ezekiel 17:10; Ezekiel 19:12
  • 20. Jeremiah 51:36
  • 21. Jeremiah 20:5
  • 22. Hosea 10:2
  • 23. Hosea 7:14
  • 24. 2 Kings 8:12
  • 25. Hosea 11:6
  • 26. Hosea 10:14
  • 27. 2 Kings 15:16

Footnotes 8

  • [a]. Or "watch"
  • [b]. Lit "the enclosure of their heart"
  • [c]. Or "But in Me is your help"
  • [d]. Lit "said"
  • [e]. Lit "it is the time that he should not tarry at the breaking forth of children"
  • [f]. Lit "hand"
  • [g]. Or "brothers"
  • [h]. Ch 14:1 in Heb
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