Hosea 13:9

Israel is destroyed because they set themselves against God, their only helper. It pinpoints self-inflicted ruin from rejecting the source of their help.

Cross-references · 20

• Jer 2:17“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
• Jer 2:19“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
• Deut 33:26“There is no one like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, in his excellency on the skies.
• Ps 121:1–2A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?
• Ps 146:5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
• Isa 3:11Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
• Jer 5:25“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
• Deut 33:29You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”
• Hos 14:1Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
• Prov 6:32He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
• Eph 1:3–5Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
• Titus 3:3–7For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Ps 46:1For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
• Isa 3:9The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
• Ps 33:20Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.
• Mal 1:9“Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?” says Yahweh of Armies.
• Prov 8:36But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
• Hos 13:4“Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.
• 2 Kgs 17:7–17It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
• Jer 4:18“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”

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