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Text -- Hosea 13:1-10 (NET)
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Baal Worshipers and Calf Worshipers to be Destroyed
13:1 When Ephraim spoke , there was terror ; he was exalted in Israel , but he became guilty by worshiping Baal and died .
13:2 Even now they persist in sin ! They make metal images for themselves, idols that they skillfully fashion from their own silver ; all of them are nothing but the work of craftsmen ! There is a saying about them : “Those who sacrifice to the calf idol are calf kissers !”
13:3 Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist , like early morning dew that evaporates , like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor , like smoke that disappears through an open window .
Well-Fed Israel Will Be Fed to Wild Animals
13:4 But I am the Lord your God , who brought you out of Egypt . Therefore, you must not acknowledge any God but me; except me there is no Savior .
13:5 I cared for you in the wilderness , in the dry desert where no water was .
13:6 When they were fed , they became satisfied ; when they were satisfied , they became proud ; as a result , they forgot me!
13:7 So I will pounce on them like a lion ; like a leopard I will lurk by the path .
13:8 I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs – I will rip open their chests . I will devour them there like a lion – like a wild animal would tear them apart .
Israel’s King Unable to Deliver the Nation
13:9 I will destroy you, O Israel ! Who is there to help you?
13:10 Where then is your king , that he may save you in all your cities ? Where are your rulers for whom you asked, saying , “Give me a king and princes ”?
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NET Notes: Hos 13:1 The MT vocalizes the consonantal text as נָשָׂא (nasa’, “he exalted”; Qal perfect 3rd person mas...
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NET Notes: Hos 13:2 Heb “They kiss calves!” The verb יִשָּׁקוּן (yishaqun) may be parsed as an imp...
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NET Notes: Hos 13:3 Heb “storm-driven away”; KJV, ASV “driven with the whirlwind out.” The verb יְסֹעֵר ...
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NET Notes: Hos 13:7 Heb “So I will be like a lion to them” (so NASB); NIV “I will come upon them like a lion.”
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