There I was #– #the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
Hosea 13:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I knew (recognized, understood, and had regard for) you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. American Standard Version (1901) I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. Common English Bible I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of no rain. Catholic Public Domain Version I knew you in the desert, in the land of solitude. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I knew thee in the desert, in the land of the wilderness. |
There I was #– #the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
‘Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says: I remember the loyalty of your youth, your love as a bride – how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
They stopped asking, ‘Where is the Lord who brought us from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, through a land of drought and darkness, a land no one travelled through and where no one lived? ’
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me. For now, Ephraim, you have acted promiscuously; Israel is defiled.
I discovered Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your ancestors like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, consecrated themselves to Shame, , and became abhorrent, like the thing they loved.
The Lord is good, a stronghold in a day of distress; he cares for those who take refuge in him.
But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elements? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?
For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this immense wilderness. The Lord your God has been with you these past forty years, and you have lacked nothing.”
He found him in a desolate land, in a barren, howling wilderness; he surrounded him, cared for him, and protected him as the pupil of his eye.
He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint rock for you.