Hosea 11:4

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

I led them with cords of human kindness, with bands of love. I was to them like those who lift infants to their cheeks. I bent down to them and fed them.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:14

I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. When he commits iniquity, I will punish him with a rod such as mortals use, with blows inflicted by human beings.

Psalm 105:40

They asked, and he brought quails, and gave them food from heaven in abundance.

Exodus 16:32

Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, in order that they may see the food with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ”

Song of Solomon 1:4

Draw me after you, let us make haste. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.

Isaiah 63:9

in all their distress. It was no messenger or angel but his presence that saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Hosea 2:8

She did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished upon her silver and gold that they used for Baal.

Leviticus 26:13

I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be their slaves no more; I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

John 12:32

And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.

Deuteronomy 32:12

the Lord alone guided him; no foreign god was with him.

Deuteronomy 32:14

curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams; Bashan bulls and goats, together with the choicest wheat— you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.