Hosea 13:10

Hosea 13:10

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 “The^a 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.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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I will be thy king; where—rather, as the Margin and the Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, "Where now is thy king?" [MAURER]. English Version is, however, favored both by the Hebrew, by the antithesis between Israel's self-chosen and perishing kings, and God, Israel's abiding King (compare Hosea 3:4-5).

where . . . Give me a king—Where now is the king whom ye substituted in My stead? Neither Saul, whom the whole nation begged for, not contented with Me their true king (I Samuel 8:5, I Samuel 8:7, I Samuel 8:19-20; I Samuel 10:19), nor Jeroboam, whom subsequently the ten tribes chose instead of the line of David My anointed, can save thee now. They had expected from their kings what is the prerogative of God alone, namely, the power of saving them.

judges—including all civil authorities under the king (compare Amos 2:3).

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