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Hosea 13:4
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2 Now they sin more and more,
And have made for themselves molded images,
Idols of their silver, according to their skill;
All of it is the work of craftsmen.
They say of them,
“Let1 the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!” 
3 Therefore they shall be like the morning cloud
And like the early dew that passes away,
aLike chaff blown off from a threshing floor
And like smoke from a chimney. 
4 “Yet aI am the Lord your God
Ever since the land of Egypt,
And you shall know no God but Me;
For bthere is no savior besides Me. 
5 aI1 knew you in the wilderness,
bIn the land of1 great drought. 
6 aWhen they had pasture, they were filled;
They were filled and their heart was exalted;
Therefore they forgot Me. 
7 “So aI will be to them like a lion;
Like ba leopard by the road I will lurk; 
8 I will meet the1m alike a bear deprived of her cubs;
I will tear open their rib cage,
And there I will devour them like a lion.
The wild beast shall tear them. 
9 “O Israel,1 you are destroyed,
But1 your help is from Me. 
10 1I will be your King;
aWhere is any other,
That he may save you in all your cities?
And your judges to whom byou said,
‘Give me a king and princes’? 
11 aI gave you a king in My anger,
And took him away in My wrath. 
12 “Thea iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;
His sin is stored up. 
13 aThe sorrows of a woman in childbirth shall come upon him.
He is an unwise son,
For he should not stay long where children are born. 
14 “I will ransom them from the1 power of the grave;
I will redeem them from death.
aO Death,1 I will be yo1ur plagues!
O Grave,2 I will be your destruction!
bPity is hidden from My eyes.” 
15 Though he is fruitful among his brethren,
aAn east wind shall come;
The wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness.
Then his spring shall become dry,
And his fountain shall be dried up.
He shall plunder the treasury of every desirable prize. 
16 Samaria1 is held guilty,
For she has arebelled against her God.
They shall fall by the sword,
Their infants shall be dashed in pieces,
And their women with child bripped open. 
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Hosea 13:4

Yet - , (literally, and) I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt God was still the same God who had sheltered them with His providence, ever since He had delivered them from Egypt. He had the same power and will to help them. Therefore their duty was the same, and their destruction arose, not from any change in Him, but from themselves. "God is the God of the ungodly, by creation and general providence."

And thou shalt - (i. e., oughtest to) know no God but Me, for (literally, and) there is not a Saviour but me "To be God and Lord and Saviour are incommunicable properties of God. Wherefore God often claimed these titles to Himself, from the time He revealed Himself to Israel. In the song of Moses, which they were commanded to rehearse, He says, "See now that I, I am He, and there is no God with Me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; neither is there any that can deliver out of My hand" Deuteronomy 32:39. Isaiah repeats this same, "Is there a God besides Me? yea there is no God; I know not any" Isaiah 44:8; and "There is no God else besides Me, a just God and a Saviour; there is none else. Look unto Me and be ye saved, for I am God and there is none else" Isaiah 45:21, Isaiah 45:2; and, "I am the Lord, that is My Name; and My glory will I not give to another; neither My praise to graven images" Isaiah 42:8. : "That God and Saviour is Christ; God, because He created; Saviour, because, being made Man, He saved. Whence He willed to be called Jesus, i. e., Saviour. Truly "beside" Him, "there is no Saviour; neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved" Acts 4:12. "It is not enough to recognize in God this quality of a Saviour. It must not be shared with "any other." Whoso associates with God any power whatever to decide on man' s salvation makes an idol, and introduces a new God."


 
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