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Hosea 13:9

Good News Translation (US Version)

“I will destroy you, people of Israel! Then who can help you?

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Israel, you brought this on yourself! You deserted me, the Lord your God, while I was leading you along the way.

Your own evil will punish you, and your turning from me will condemn you. You will learn how bitter and wrong it is to abandon me, the Lord your God, and no longer to remain faithful to me. I, the Sovereign Lord Almighty, have spoken.”

People of Israel, no god is like your God, riding in splendor across the sky, riding through the clouds to come to your aid.

Return to the Lord your God, people of Israel. Your sin has made you stumble and fall.

Instead, your sins have kept these good things from you.

Now, you priests, try asking God to be good to us. He will not answer your prayer, and it will be your fault.

The Lord says, “I am the Lord your God, who led you out of Egypt. You have no God but me. I alone am your savior.

But evil people are doomed; what they have done to others will now be done to them.

Their prejudices will be held against them. They sin as openly as the people of Sodom did. They are doomed, and they have brought it on themselves.

Those who do not find me hurt themselves; anyone who hates me loves death.”

But a man who commits adultery doesn't have any sense. He is just destroying himself.

Happy are those who have the God of Jacob to help them and who depend on the Lord their God,

God is our shelter and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble.

We put our hope in the Lord; he is our protector and our help.

Israel, how happy you are! There is no one like you, a nation saved by the Lord. The Lord himself is your shield and your sword, to defend you and give you victory. Your enemies will come begging for mercy, and you will trample them down.

Judah, you have brought this on yourself by the way you have lived and by the things you have done. Your sin has caused this suffering; it has stabbed you through the heart.

But you dishonor me when you say that my altar is worthless and when you offer on it food that you despise.

You say, ‘How tired we are of all this!’ and you turn up your nose at me. As your offering to me you bring a stolen animal or one that is lame or sick. Do you think I will accept that from you?

He offered sacrifices to the gods of the Syrians, who had defeated him. He said, “The Syrian gods helped the kings of Syria, so if I sacrifice to them, they may help me too.” This brought disaster on him and on his nation.

They have not prayed to me sincerely, but instead they throw themselves down and wail as the heathen do. When they pray for grain and wine, they gash themselves like pagans. What rebels they are!

Even though I was the one who brought them up and made them strong, they plotted against me.




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