Hosea 11:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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 pity it was he who 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.