Hosea 13

1When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty through Baal, he died.Cross-references: Gen 2:17 · Num 2:18 · Num 10:22 · Num 13:8 · Num 13:16 · Num 27:16 · +14 more

2Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’Cross-references: Num 32:14 · 1Sam 10:1 · 1Ki 19:18 · 2Chr 28:13 · 2Chr 33:23 · Ps 2:12 · +20 more

3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.Cross-references: Ps 1:4 · Ps 68:2 · Ps 83:12 · Isa 17:13 · Isa 41:15 · Dan 2:35 · +1 more

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.Cross-references: Ex 20:2 · Ps 81:9 · Isa 43:3 · Isa 43:10 · Isa 44:6 · Isa 45:21 · +2 more

5I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.Cross-references: Ex 2:25 · Deut 2:7 · Deut 8:15 · Deut 32:10 · Ps 1:6 · Ps 31:7 · +7 more

6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.Cross-references: Deut 6:10 · Deut 8:12 · Deut 32:13 · Deut 32:18 · Neh 9:25 · Neh 9:35 · +6 more

7Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.Cross-references: Isa 42:13 · Jer 5:6 · Lam 3:10 · Hos 5:14 · Amos 1:2 · Amos 3:4 · +1 more

8I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.Cross-references: 2Sam 17:8 · Ps 50:22 · Ps 80:13 · Prov 17:12 · Isa 5:29 · Isa 56:9 · +2 more

9You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your helper.Cross-references: Deut 33:26 · Deut 33:29 · 2Ki 17:7 · Ps 33:20 · Ps 46:1 · Ps 121:1 · +14 more

10Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’?Cross-references: Deut 32:37 · Judg 2:16 · 1Sam 8:5 · 1Sam 8:19 · 1Sam 12:11 · 1Ki 12:20 · +16 more

11I have given you a king in my anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.Cross-references: 1Sam 8:7 · 1Sam 10:19 · 1Sam 12:13 · 1Sam 15:22 · 1Sam 16:1 · 1Sam 31:1 · +7 more

12The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.Cross-references: Deut 32:34 · Job 14:17 · Job 21:19 · Rom 2:5

13The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son, for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the opening of the womb.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:3 · Ps 48:6 · Prov 22:3 · Isa 13:8 · Isa 21:3 · Isa 26:17 · +13 more

14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.Cross-references: Num 23:19 · 1Sam 15:29 · Job 19:25 · Job 33:24 · Ps 16:10 · Ps 30:3 · +19 more

15Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.Cross-references: Gen 41:52 · Gen 48:19 · Gen 49:22 · Deut 33:17 · Job 18:16 · Ps 1:4 · +14 more

16Samaria will bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”Cross-references: 2Ki 8:12 · 2Ki 15:16 · 2Ki 17:6 · 2Ki 17:18 · 2Ki 19:9 · Ps 137:8 · +15 more