Hosea 13:2-4

The Lord's Relentless Judgment on Israel

2 And now they sin more and more,
and d make for themselves metal images,
idols skillfully made of their silver,
e all of them the work of craftsmen.
It is said of them,
"Those who offer human sacrifice f kiss calves!"
3 Therefore they shall be g like the morning mist
or g like the dew that goes early away,
h like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
or i like smoke from a window.

4 But j I am the Lord your God
from the land of Egypt;
k you know no God but me,
and l besides me there is no savior.

  1. Cross References
    Hosea 2:8
    And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 115:4
    Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
    Isaiah 40:19 - 20
    An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains.
  3. Cross References
    1 Kings 19:18
    Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.
    Job 31:26 - 27
    If I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor.
  4. Cross References
    Hosea 6:4
    What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
  5. Cross References
    Hosea 6:4
    What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
  6. Cross References
    Psalms 1:4
    The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
  7. Cross References
    Psalms 68:2
    As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away; as wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God!
  8. Cross References
    Hosea 12:9
    I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.
  9. Cross References
    Exodus 20:3
    You shall have no other gods before me.
  10. Cross References
    Isaiah 43:11
    I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.
    Isaiah 45:21
    Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the Lord ? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.
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