Hosea 7:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Woe unto them! for they have wandered from me; destruction unto them! for they have trespassed against me: though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

א֤וֹי לָהֶם֙ כִּֽי־נָדְד֣וּ מִמֶּ֔נִּי שֹׁ֥ד לָהֶ֖ם כִּֽי־פָ֣שְׁעוּ בִ֑י וְאָנֹכִ֣י אֶפְדֵּ֔ם וְהֵ֕מָּה דִּבְּר֥וּ עָלַ֖י כְּזָבִֽים׃

Transliteration

ʾôy to them for-nāḏəḏû from me šōḏ to them for-pāšəʿû against me wə-ʾānōḵî ʾep̄dēm wə-they dibbərû against me kəzāḇîm.

Grammar Details

• *ʾôy*: interjection - woe
• *lāhem*: preposition + 3rd masculine plural suffix - to them
• *nāḏəḏû*: qal perfect 3rd plural - they have wandered/fled
• *mimennî*: preposition + 1st singular suffix - from me
• *šōḏ*: noun, masculine singular - destruction/devastation
• *pāšəʿû*: qal perfect 3rd plural - they have rebelled/transgressed
• *bî*: preposition + 1st singular suffix - against me
• *wə*-*ʾānōḵî*: conjunction + 1st singular independent pronoun - and I
• *ʾep̄dēm*: qal imperfect 1st singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - I would redeem them
• *wə*-*hēmmâ*: conjunction + 3rd masculine plural independent pronoun - and they
• *dibbərû*: piel perfect 3rd plural - they have spoken
• *ʿālay*: preposition + 1st singular suffix - against me
• *kəzāḇîm*: noun, masculine plural - lies

Word Meanings

• *nāḏəḏû*: wandered/fled/strayed
• *šōḏ*: destruction/devastation/ruin
• *pāšəʿû*: rebelled/transgressed/committed offense
• *ʾep̄dēm*: redeem them/ransom them/deliver them
• *dibbərû*: spoken/said/declared
• *kəzāḇîm*: lies/falsehoods/deceptions

Referenced Verses

• Hos 9:12 : 12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall be left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
• Hos 11:12 : 12 Ephraim compasseth me about with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the Holy One.
• Jonah 1:3 : 3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah.
• Jonah 1:10 : 10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, What is this that thou hast done? For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Jehovah, because he had told them.
• Mic 6:4 : 4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
• Mal 3:13-15 : 13 Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee? 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts? 15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.
• Matt 23:13-29 : 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter. 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves. 16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor. 17 Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold? 18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, he is a debtor. 19 Ye blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? 20 He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. 21 And he that sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. 22 And he that sweareth by the heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. 23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone. 24 Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel! 25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess. 26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also. 27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. 29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous,
• Matt 23:37 : 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
• 1 Pet 1:18-19 : 18 knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers; 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, {G299} even the blood of Christ:
• 1 John 1:10 : 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
• Rev 8:13 : 13 And I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a great voice, Woe, woe, woe, for them that dwell on the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, who are yet to sound.
• Hos 9:17 : 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
• Hos 11:2 : 2 The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
• Deut 15:15 : 15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to-day.
• Neh 1:10 : 10 Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
• Job 21:14-15 : 14 And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
• Job 22:17 : 17 Who said unto God, Depart from us; And, What can the Almighty do for us?
• Ps 106:10 : 10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
• Ps 107:2-3 : 2 Let the redeemed of Jehovah say [so], Whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary, 3 And gathered out of the lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and from the south.
• Ps 139:7-9 : 7 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there. 9 If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
• Isa 31:1 : 1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah!
• Isa 41:14 : 14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 43:1 : 1 But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine.
• Isa 59:13 : 13 transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
• Isa 63:8 : 8 For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely: so he was their Saviour.
• Jer 14:10 : 10 Thus saith Jehovah unto this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Jehovah doth not accept them; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
• Jer 18:11-12 : 11 Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings. 12 But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart.
• Jer 42:20 : 20 For ye have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for ye sent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our God; and according unto all that Jehovah our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it:
• Jer 44:17-18 : 17 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. 18 But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink-offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
• Lam 5:16 : 16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.
• Ezek 16:23 : 23 And it is come to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord Jehovah,)
• Ezek 18:2 : 2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
• Ezek 18:25 : 25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel: Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
• Ezek 34:6 : 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my sheep were scattered upon all the face of the earth; and there was none that did search or seek [after them].
• Hos 7:1 : 1 When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief entereth in, and the troop of robbers ravageth without.
• Hos 7:3 : 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.