Hosea 13:9
You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me—against your helper.
BSB
ASV
It is thy destruction, O Israel, that thou art against me, against thy help.
KJV
O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.
"Your destruction, Israel, only your help is with me. Where is your king? May he save you now in all your cities; and your judges, of whom you said: Give me a king and princes: I will give you a king in my fury, and take away in my indignation." LXX: "Who will help you in your corruption, O Israel? Where is your king? May he save you in all your cities and judge you as you said: 'Give me a king and prince.' I gave you a king and prince in my anger and took away in my fury."
All the blame of Israel's ruin laid upon themselves: O Israel! thy perdition is thence; it is of and from thyself; or, " It has destroyed thee, O Israel! that is, all that sin and folly of thine which thou art before charged with. As thy own wickedness has many a time corrected thee, so that has now at length destroyed thee." Note, Wilful sinners are self-destroyers.
O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in Me is thy help - This is one of the concise sayings of Hosea, which is capable of many shades of meaning. The five words, one by one, are literally, “Israel, thy destruction, for” or “that, in” or “against Me, in” or “against thy help.” Something must be supplied any way; the simplest seems; “O Israel, thy destruction” is, “that” thou hast been, hast rebelled “against Me, against thy help” .
IT would be a very important subject for our meditation if we kept to the text and thought upon its great Truth of God—that the ruin of man is altogether of himself and the salvation of man is altogether of God. These two statements, I believe, comprehend the main points of a sound theology. There have been divisions in the Church over these points where there ought not to have been any. The Calvinist has said and said right bravely, that salvation is of Grace alone.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 146:5Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
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But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.
Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.
For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
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Jeremiah 2:17Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
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“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Deuteronomy 33:26“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
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Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
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Jeremiah 5:25Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
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But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
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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…
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The 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.