Hosea 14:3

Good News Translation

Assyria can never save us, and war horses cannot protect us. We will never again say to our idols that they are our God. O Lord, you show mercy to those who have no one else to turn to.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 16:7

At that time the prophet Hanani went to King Asa and said, “Because you relied on the king of Syria instead of relying on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Israel has escaped from you.

Psalm 10:14

But you do see; you take notice of trouble and suffering and are always ready to help. The helpless commit themselves to you; you have always helped the needy.

Psalm 146:3

Don't put your trust in human leaders; no human being can save you.

Psalm 146:9

He protects the strangers who live in our land; he helps widows and orphans, but takes the wicked to their ruin.

Psalm 33:17

War horses are useless for victory; their great strength cannot save.

Psalm 68:5

God, who lives in his sacred Temple, cares for orphans and protects widows.

Isaiah 1:29

You will be sorry that you ever worshiped trees and planted sacred gardens.

Isaiah 2:20

When that day comes, they will throw away the gold and silver idols they have made, and abandon them to the moles and the bats.

Isaiah 27:9

But Israel's sins will be forgiven only when the stones of pagan altars are ground up like chalk, and no more incense altars or symbols of the goddess Asherah are left.

Isaiah 30:16

Instead, you plan to escape from your enemies by riding fast horses. And you are right—escape is what you will have to do! You think your horses are fast enough, but those who pursue you will be faster!

Isaiah 30:2

They go to Egypt for help without asking for my advice. They want Egypt to protect them, so they put their trust in Egypt's king.

Isaiah 31:1

Those who go to Egypt for help are doomed! They are relying on Egypt's vast military strength—horses, chariots, and soldiers. But they do not rely on the Lord, the holy God of Israel, or ask him for help.

Isaiah 31:3

The Egyptians are not gods—they are only human. Their horses are not supernatural. When the Lord acts, the strong nation will crumble, and the weak nation it helped will fall. Both of them will be destroyed.

Isaiah 36:8

I will make a bargain with you in the name of the emperor. I will give you two thousand horses if you can find that many riders.

Jeremiah 49:11

Leave your orphans with me, and I will take care of them. Your widows can depend on me.

Ezekiel 36:25

I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean from all your idols and everything else that has defiled you.

Ezekiel 37:23

They will not defile themselves with disgusting idols any more or corrupt themselves with sin. I will free them from all the ways in which they sin and betray me. I will purify them; they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Hosea 12:1

Everything that the people of Israel do from morning to night is useless and destructive. Treachery and acts of violence increase among them. They make treaties with Assyria and do business with Egypt.”

Hosea 13:2

They still keep on sinning by making metal images to worship—idols of silver, designed by human minds, made by human hands. And then they say, “Offer sacrifices to them!” How can anyone kiss those idols—idols in the shape of bulls!

Hosea 14:8

The people of Israel will have nothing more to do with idols; I will answer their prayers and take care of them. Like an evergreen tree I will shelter them; I am the source of all their blessings.”

Hosea 2:17

I will never let her speak the name of Baal again.

Hosea 4:12

They ask for revelations from a piece of wood! A stick tells them what they want to know! They have left me. Like a woman who becomes a prostitute, they have given themselves to other gods.

Hosea 5:13

“When Israel saw how sick she was and when Judah saw her own wounds, then Israel went to Assyria to ask the great emperor for help, but he could not cure them or heal their wounds.

Hosea 7:11

Israel flits around like a silly pigeon; first her people call on Egypt for help, and then they run to Assyria!

Hosea 8:6

An Israelite craftsman made the idol, and it is not a god at all! The gold bull worshiped in Samaria will be smashed to pieces!

Hosea 8:9

Stubborn as wild donkeys, the people of Israel go their own way. They have gone off to seek help from Assyria and have paid other nations to protect them.

Jonah 2:10

Then the Lord ordered the fish to spit Jonah up on the beach, and it did.

Zechariah 13:2

At that time I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and no one will remember them any more. I will get rid of anyone who claims to be a prophet and will take away the desire to worship idols.

John 14:18

“When I go, you will not be left all alone; I will come back to you.

Deuteronomy 17:16

The king is not to have a large number of horses for his army, and he is not to send people to Egypt to buy horses, because the Lord has said that his people are never to return there.