Hosea Chapter 13 verse 9 Holy Bible
It is thy destruction, O Israel, that `thou art' against me, against thy help.
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I have sent destruction on you, O Israel; who will be your helper?
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It is thy destruction, O Israel, that [thou art] against me, against thy help.
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O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.
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You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, Against your help.
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And I consume them there as a lioness, A beast of the field doth rend them.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. The literal rendering of this verse is, (1) It hath destroyed thee, O Israel, that thou hast been against me, against thy Help. The ellipsis is accounted for by the strong emotion of the speaker, ֵשחִת is (a) the Piel third person, and has the suffix of the second person, from which the pronoun אתָּה may be supplied as subject of the concluding clause. The preposition be has here the meaning of "against," as in Genesis 16:12 and 2 Samuel 24:17, while בִי is in apposition to it. The Hebrew commentators take שי as a verbal form; thus Rashi: "Thou hast destroyed thyself, O Israel;" and Kimchi: (2) "The calf has destroyed thee which he had mentioned above; he says, 'This has destroyed thee; for unless this had been so, thy help had been in me.'" . . .
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) In me . . . Help.--The close of this verse is rhetorically abrupt, which is altogether missed in the English version. Render, but against Me thy help. We must supply "Thou hast rebelled," the construction being the same as in Hosea 13:16. "Thy captivity, O Israel, is from thee; thy redemption is from Me; thy perishing is from thee: thy salvation is from Me" (Pusey).
