Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus that struck him. And he said: The gods of the kings of Syria help them; and I will appease them with victims, and they will help me. Whereas on the contrary they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
Hosea 13:9 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Destruction is thy own, O Israel: thy help is only in me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition It is your destruction, O Israel, that you have been against Me, for in Me is your help. American Standard Version (1901) It is thy destruction, O Israel, that thou art against me, against thy help. Common English Bible I will destroy you, Israel; for you didn’t realize that I could help you. Catholic Public Domain Version Perdition is yours, Israel. Your help is only in me. English Standard Version 2016 He destroys you, O Israel, for you are against me, against your helper. |
Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus that struck him. And he said: The gods of the kings of Syria help them; and I will appease them with victims, and they will help me. Whereas on the contrary they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom there is no number.
Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them.
But he that is an adulterer, for the folly of his heart shall destroy his own soul:
But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.
Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it. Woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.
Hath not this been done to thee, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, at that time when he led thee by the way?
Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with thee, saith the Lord, the God of hosts.
Thy ways and thy devices have brought these things upon thee: this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it hath touched thy heart.
Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
But I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt: and thou shalt know no God but me, and there is no saviour beside me.
Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be dashed, and let the women with child be ripped up.
And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me.
And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms: and they have imagined evil against me.
And you have profaned it in that you say: The table of the Lord is defiled: and that which is laid thereupon is contemptible with the fire that devoureth it.
And you have said: Behold of our labour, and you puffed it away, saith the Lord of hosts, and you brought in of rapine the lame, and the sick, and brought in an offering: shall I accept it at your hands, saith the Lord?
And now beseech ye the face of God, that he may have mercy on you, (for by your hand hath this been done,) if by any means he will receive your faces, saith the Lord of hosts.
There is no other God like the God of the rightest: he that is mounted upon the heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the clouds run hither and thither.
Blessed are thou, Israel: Who is like to thee, O people, that art saved by the Lord? The shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory. Thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.