O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.
O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me. Thou and ME stand in contrast.
Hast destroyed thyself - Literally, thy destruction is of thyself (, "He that doeth it (adultery) destroyeth his own soul;" ).
In me is Thine help - literally, in thine help - (cf. ). Hadst thou rested thy hope in me, I would have been always ready at hand for thy help (Grotius).
Verse Hosea 13:9. _O ISRAEL, THOU HAST DESTROYED THYSELF_] These evils come not by my _immediate infliction_; they are the consequences of _thy_ _own crimes_. In the above terrifying figures of the f...
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, “Isra...
CHAPTER 13 EPHRAIM'S RUIN AND JUDGMENT _ 1. Ruin and judgment (Hosea 13:1) _ 2. It is thy destruction, O Israel! (Hosea 13:9) 3. Mercy to follow wrath (Hosea 13:12) 4. The desolation of the nearin...
HOSEA 13:1 (= Heb. Hosea 13:1 to Hosea 14:1). FACILIS DESCENSUS AVERNO. Israel has persistently lapsed into the Baal-worship and idolatry, and therefore shall be swept away as the chaff ...
THOU HAST DESTROYED THYSELF. the destruction [which thou art suffering] is all thine own. Ref to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:5. Hebrew. _shahath,_ same word as "corrupted"). App-92. BUT IN ME, &C.. fo...
Hosea, -in the spirit", sees the future as if it were past. Hence the use of the perfect. _O Israel_, &c. This rendering agrees with that of the Jewish commentator, Rashi (similarly the Targum). It be...
An alternation of cries expressive of the contending thoughts and emotions of the tender-hearted but truthful prophet. The punishment is inevitable; yea, it is begun. Yet if Israel would only repent!...
_ISRAEL DESTROYED HERSELF -- HOSEA 13:9-12:_ Suicide is a horrible thing. What Israel had done spiritually was nothing short of nation spiritual suicide. They had turned from God to idolatry and destr...
DISCOURSE: 1174 HELP IN CHRIST FOR SELF-DESTROYED SINNERS Hosea 13:9. _O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help_. THE great mass of nominal Christians need to be informed respec...
O ISRAEL, &C.— _O Israel, I will destroy thee, and who shall bring thee help?_ Hosea 13:10. _Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? And thy judges,_ &c. Houbigant....
REQUITINGISRAEL WILL PERISH TEXT: Hosea 13:9-16 9 It is thy destruction, O Israel, that thou art against me, against thy help. 10 Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? a...
ISRAEL'S IDOLATRY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES The main thought of this c., which is a continuation of the last (cp. Hosea 12:9; Hosea 13:4), is the folly of Israel incurring the enmity of God, who had shown...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 13 FINAL *JUDGEMENT ON ISRAEL V1 *Ephraim made himself very important in Israel. *Ephraim spoke and people shook with fear....
IN ME... HELP. — The close of this verse is rhetorically abrupt, which is altogether missed in the English version. Render, _but against Me thy help._ We must supply “Thou hast rebelled,” the construc...
שִֽׁחֶתְךָ֥ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל כִּֽי ־בִ֥י בְ עֶזְרֶֽךָ׃...
THE FINAL ARGUMENT Hosea 12:1 - Hosea 14:1 THE impassioned call with which the last chapter closed was by no means an assurance of salvation: "How am I to give thee, up, Ephraim? how am I to let thee...
TO OPPOSE GOD IS DESTRUCTION Hosea 13:1-14 Again, a very tender chapter. The lips that speak with trembling betray the heart that God can exalt. But when we turn to Baal, the emblem of self-confiden...
In the second movement Jehovah set the present sin in the light of His present love. The sin of Ephraim and the sin of Judah, if the marginal reading be adopted, are both declared. The sin of Ephraim...
Turning from this main line of the divine message, we now examine the prophet's interpolations. These set forth the history of Israel indicating their relation to Jehovah, and pronounce judgment. They...
O Israel, thou (f) hast destroyed thyself; but in me [is] thine help. (f) Your destruction is certain, and my benefits toward you declare that it comes not from me: therefore your own malice, idolatr...
_Own. Evils are brought on by the sins of men, which God does not cause. (Worthington) --- Septuagint, "who will aid to prevent thy perdition, O Israel." (Haydock) --- God alone is the author of salva...
Oh, what a verse is here! Could it be possible to give a fuller account of the blessed gospel of the ever blessed God in a more comprehensive manner! Israel hath destroyed himself. Yea, so hath every...
The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
In the first place, God upbraids the Israelites for having in their perverseness rejected whatever was offered for their safety: but he proceeds farther and says, that they were past hope, and that th...
Chapter 13 is the perpetual conflict of the affections and the judgment of God. The thought of their sin calls forth the announcement of the necessary and inevitable judgment. As soon as the judgment...
O ISRAEL, THOU HAST DESTROYED THYSELF,.... Though the Lord was a lion, a leopard, and a bear to them, yet their destruction was not owing to him, but to themselves; he was not chargeable with it, but...
O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me [is] thine help. Ver. 9. _O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself_] Heb. He, or, It hath marred thee, O Israel; that is, either thy sin of self-exaltati...
_O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself_ Thy sins have brought down destruction upon thee, and it is from me only thou canst expect any help, which I will in due time afford thee. The Hebrew of this ve...
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O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in Me is thine help, literally, "It has destroyed thee, Israel, because [thou art] against Me, against thy Help. " That is the great contrast: on the one sid...
IS THINE HELP: _ Heb._ in thy help...
9-16 Israel had destroyed himself by his rebellion; but he could not save himself, his help was from the Lord only. This may well be applied to the case of spiritual redemption, from that lost state...
THOU HAST DESTROYED THYSELF; after these menaces it might seem I had destroyed thee, but thou thyself hast done it by thy sins. It is the rebel that destroys himself, though he fall by the sword of hi...
Hosea 13:9 Israel H3478 destroyed H7843 (H8765) help H5828 thou - Hosea 14:1; 2 K
BECAUSE EPHRAIM HAVE OFFENDED SO DEEPLY, AND HAVE REJECTED THEIR DELIVERER, JUDGMENT UPON THEM IS INEVITABLE (HOSEA 13:1). The crimes of Israel are again laid bear. They are guilty of idolatry (Hosea...
‘It is your destruction, O Israel, That you are against me, Against your help.' But they have turned away from the One Who is their help. And this is what will result in their destruction, the fac...
Part III. The ultimate blessing of Israel in the kingdom, chapter divider. The response of Jehovah continues to the end, but at (Hosea 13:9) changes to entreaty and promise....
Hosea 13:9 I. Self-destruction is possible to us men even the destruction of the highest, noblest, and divinest part of our nature. II. The only power by which we can destroy ourselves is the power...
Hosea 13:1. _When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel;_ When we are little in our own esteem, when we are full of fears concerning ourselves, when we dare not think of boasting, the...
Hosea was full of complaints against the people of God; for, in his day, they had very sadly wandered from the Lord. They had even forgotten him. In Hosea's prophecy, we have the plaintive voice of a...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Israel's ruin. Ultimate blessing in the kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Worldly prosperity, which feeds men's pride, makes them forgetful of God, a...
Hosea 13:2. _Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves._ The readings vary here. The LXX, “You must sacrifice men, for there are no more calves.” The Vulgate Latin reads, “Sacrifice the men that wors...
_O Israel thou hast destroyed thyself; but in Me is thine help._ MAN THE SELF-DESTROYER, AND GOD THE SAVIOUR I. The lost state of man, both by nature and by practice. Observe to whom the words were s...
_I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought._ WILDERNESS-KNOWLEDGE God knows His people where nobody else will take any notice of them. You do not know a man until you know him i...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 13:9 Ephraim, by its stubborn refusal to return to the Lord, rejects the only hope that God offers. Three figures of judgment are pronounced in these verses: the incompetent king ...
CRITICAL NOTES.] HOSEA 13:9.] This destruction is entirely their own. Against God, men are against their own help and welfare. _HOMILETICS_ MORAL SUICIDE AND DIVINE HELP.—_Hosea 13:9_ The prophet o...
EXPOSITION The first eight verses of this chapter form the premises from which the prophet, in the ninth verse, draws the conclusion that the conduct of Israel had been suicidal; that they had brought...
Now when Ephraim was speaking trembling (Hsa Hosea 13:1), That is, when Ephraim was not proud and exalted, but recognized their own weakness and all, then the LORD exalted himself in Israel; but whe...
2 Kings 17:7; Deuteronomy 33:26; Ephesians 1:3; Hosea 14:1; Hosea 13