Hosea 13:11

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I give you a king in my angerand take away a king in my wrath.

Hebrew Names Version
I have given you a king in my anger, And have taken him away in my wrath.

King James Version
I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.

English Standard Version
I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.

New American Standard Bible
I gave you a king in My anger, And took him away in My wrath.

New Century Version
So I gave you a king, but only in anger, and I took him away in my great anger.

Amplified Bible
I gave you a king in My anger, And I took him away in My wrath [as punishment].

Geneva Bible (1587)
I gaue thee a King in mine anger, and I tooke him away in my wrath.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
I gave you a king in My anger And took him away in My wrath.

Legacy Standard Bible
I gave you a king in My angerAnd took him away in My wrath.

Berean Standard Bible
So in My anger I gave you a king, and in My wrath I took him away.

Contemporary English Version
In my anger, I gave you a king; in my fury, I took him away.

Complete Jewish Bible
I gave you a king in my anger; and in my fury I took him away.

Darby Translation
I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.

Easy-to-Read Version
I was angry, and I gave you a king. And when I became very angry, I took him away.

George Lamsa Translation
I gave you a king in my anger, and took him away in my wrath.

Good News Translation
In my anger I have given you kings, and in my fury I have taken them away.

Lexham English Bible
I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him in my wrath.

Literal Translation
I gave to you a king in My anger, and took him away in My fury.

American Standard Version
I have given thee a king in mine anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.

Bible in Basic English
I have given you a king, because I was angry, and have taken him away in my wrath.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I give thee a king in Mine anger, and take him away in My wrath.

King James Version (1611)
I gaue thee a king in mine anger, and tooke him away in my wrath.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I gaue thee a king in my wrath, and in my displeasure I toke him from thee agayne.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I gave thee a king in mine anger, and kept him back in my wrath.

English Revised Version
I have given thee a king in mine anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.

World English Bible
I have given you a king in my anger, And have taken him away in my wrath.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal yyue to thee a kyng in my strong veniaunce, and Y schal take awei in myn indignacioun.

Update Bible Version
I have given you a king in my anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.

Webster's Bible Translation
I gave thee a king in my anger, and took [him] away in my wrath.

New English Translation
I granted you a king in my anger, and I will take him away in my wrath!

New King James Version
I gave you a king in My anger, And took him away in My wrath.

New Living Translation
In my anger I gave you kings, and in my fury I took them away.

New Life Bible
I gave you a king in My anger, and in My anger I took him away.

New Revised Standard
I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I might give thee a king in mine anger, and take him away in my wrath.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will give thee a king in my wrath, and will take him away in my indignation.

Revised Standard Version
I have given you kings in my anger, and I have taken them away in my wrath.

Young's Literal Translation
I give to thee a king in Mine anger, And I take away in My wrath.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
well, I gaue the a kinge in my wrath, and in my displeasure will I take him from the agayne.

Contextual Overview

¹³"When birth pangs signaled it was time to be born, Ephraim was too stupid to come out of the womb. When the passage into life opened up, he didn't show. Shall I intervene and pull them into life? Shall I snatch them from a certain death? Who is afraid of you, Death? Who cares about your threats, Tomb? In the end I'm abolishing regret, banishing sorrow, Even though Ephraim ran wild, the black sheep of the family. " God 's tornado is on its way, roaring out of the desert. It will devastate the country, leaving a trail of ruin and wreckage. The cities will be gutted, dear possessions gone for good. Now Samaria has to face the charges because she has rebelled against her God: Her people will be killed, babies smashed on the rocks, pregnant women ripped open." ¹⁶Religion Customized to Taste God once let loose against Ephraim a terrifying sentence against Israel: Caught and convicted in the lewd sex-worship of Baal—they died! And now they're back in the sin business again, manufacturing god-images they can use, Religion customized to taste. Professionals see to it: Anything you want in a god you can get. Can you believe it? They sacrifice live babies to these dead gods— kill living babies and kiss golden calves! And now there's nothing left to these people: hollow men, desiccated women, Like scraps of paper blown down the street, like smoke in a gusty wind. "I'm still your God , the God who saved you out of Egypt. I'm the only real God you've ever known. I'm the one and only God who delivers. I took care of you during the wilderness hard times, those years when you had nothing. I took care of you, took care of all your needs, gave you everything you needed. You were spoiled. You thought you didn't need me. You forgot me. "I'll charge them like a lion, like a leopard stalking in the brush. I'll jump them like a sow grizzly robbed of her cubs. I'll rip out their guts. Coyotes will make a meal of them. Crows will clean their bones. I'm going to destroy you, Israel. Who is going to stop me? Where is your trusty king you thought would save you? Where are all the local leaders you wanted so badly? All these rulers you insisted on having, demanding, ‘Give me a king! Give me leaders!'? Well, long ago I gave you a king, but I wasn't happy about it. Now, fed up, I've gotten rid of him. I have a detailed record of your infidelities— Ephraim's sin documented and stored in a safe-deposit box. "When birth pangs signaled it was time to be born, Ephraim was too stupid to come out of the womb. When the passage into life opened up, he didn't show. Shall I intervene and pull them into life? Shall I snatch them from a certain death? Who is afraid of you, Death? Who cares about your threats, Tomb? In the end I'm abolishing regret, banishing sorrow, Even though Ephraim ran wild, the black sheep of the family. " God 's tornado is on its way, roaring out of the desert. It will devastate the country, leaving a trail of ruin and wreckage. The cities will be gutted, dear possessions gone for good. Now Samaria has to face the charges because she has rebelled against her God: Her people will be killed, babies smashed on the rocks, pregnant women ripped open."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hosea 10:3, 1 Samuel 8:7-9, 1 Samuel 10:19, 1 Samuel 12:13, 1 Samuel 15:22, 1 Samuel 15:23, 1 Samuel 16:1, 1 Samuel 31:1-7, 1 Kings 12:15, 1 Kings 12:16, 1 Kings 12:26-32, 1 Kings 14:7-16, 2 Kings 17:1-4, Proverbs 28:2

Reciprocal: Numbers 22:20 - but yet 1 Samuel 8:5 - now make 1 Samuel 8:22 - General 1 Samuel 9:17 - Behold 1 Samuel 11:15 - rejoiced greatly 1 Samuel 31:6 - General 1 Chronicles 10:6 - Saul Job 34:30 - General Proverbs 24:22 - their Micah 4:9 - is there Acts 13:22 - when

Cross-References

Genesis 13:14
After Lot separated from him, God said to Abram, "Open your eyes, look around. Look north, south, east, and west. Everything you see, the whole land spread out before you, I will give to you and your children forever. I'll make your descendants like dust—counting your descendants will be as impossible as counting the dust of the Earth. So—on your feet, get moving! Walk through the country, its length and breadth; I'm giving it all to you."

Psalms 16:3
And these God-chosen lives all around— what splendid friends they make!

Proverbs 27:10
Don't leave your friends or your parents' friends and run home to your family when things get rough; Better a nearby friend than a distant family.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I gave thee a king in mine anger,.... Not the king of Assyria, sent to waste and destroy them, and carry them captive, as some, for of him the next clause cannot be said; nor Jeroboam, the first king of the ten tribes, as others, who was not given in anger to Israel, but to Solomon; rather Saul, as Kimchi and Aben Ezra, the first king of all Israel; and who was given at the request of the people, though in anger and resentment, they rejecting God their King; or it may design the kingly office and power in general, in a succession of kings from him the first of them:

and took [him] away in my wrath; not Jeroboam, who does not appear to be taken away by death in wrath; rather Saul, who died in battle with the Philistines, and fell on the mountains of Gilboa: but it may be rendered better, "I will take him away" o; and refers not to Zedekiah the last king of Judith, as some in Kimchi; but to Hoshea, the last king of the ten tribes; for it is of there more especially the words, both in the text and context, are spoken; and so it respects the entire removal of kingly power from them, which ceased in Hoshea; see Hosea 3:4.

o ואקח "et auferam", Zanchius, Piscator, Cocceius, V. L. "recipiam", Drusius; "accipiam", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I gave thee a king in Mine anger - ^o: “God, when He is asked for ought amiss, sheweth displeasure, when He giveth, hath mercy, when He giveth not.” “The devil was heard,” (in asking to enter into the swine) “the Apostle was not heard,” (when he prayed that the messenger of Satan might depart from him) , “God heard him whom He purposed to condemn; and He heard not him whom He willed to heal.” : “God, when propitious, denieth what we love, when we love amiss; when wroth, He giveth to the lover, what he loveth amiss. The Apostle saith plainly, “God gave them over to their own hearts’ desire.” He gave them then what they loved, but, in giving, condemned them.” God did appoint Jeroboam, although not in the way in which Israel took him. Jeroboam and Israel took, as from themselves, what God appointed; and, so taking it, marred God’s gift.

Taking it to themselves from themselves, they maintained it for themselves by human policy and sin. As was the beginning, such was the whole course of their kings. The beginning was rebellion; murder, intestine commotion, anarchy, was the oft-repeated issue. God was against them and their kings; but he let them have their way. In His displeasure with them He allowed them their choice; in displeasure with their evil kings He took them away. Some He smote in their own persons, some in their posterity. So often as He gave them, so often He removed them, until, in Hoshea, He took them away forever. This too explains, how what God “gave in anger,” could be “taken away” also “in anger.” The civil authority was not a thing wrong in itself, the ceasing whereof must be a mercy. Israel was in a worse condition through its separate monarchy; but, apart from the calf-worship, it was not sin. The changing of one king for another did not mend it.

Individual kings were taken away in anger against themselves; their removal brought fresh misery and bloodshed. Nations and Churches and individuals may put themselves in an evil position, and God may have allowed it in His anger, and yet, it may be their wisdom and humility to remain in it, until God change it, lest He should “take” it away, not in forgiveness, but in “anger.” : “David they neither asked for, nor did the Lord give him in His anger; but the Lord first chose him in mercy, gave him in grace, in His supreme good-pleasure He strengthened and preserved him.” : “Let no one who suffereth from a wicked ruler, accuse “him” from whom he suffereth, for it was from his own ill deserts, that he became subject to such a ruler. Let him accuse then his own deeds, rather than the injustice of the ruler, for it is written, “I gave thee a king in Mine anger.” Why then disdain to have as rulers, those whose rule we receive from the anger of God?” : “When a reprobate people is allowed to have a reprobate pastor, that pastor is given, neither for his own sake, nor for that of the people; inasmuch as he so governeth, and they so obey, that neither the teacher nor the taught are found meet to attain to eternal bliss. Of whom the Lord saith by Hosea, “I gave thee a king in Mine anger.” For in the anger of God is a king given, when the bad have a worse appointed as their ruler. Such a pastor is then given, when he undertakes the rule of such a people, both being condemned alike to everlasting punishment.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 13:11. I gave thee a king in mine anger — Such was Saul; for they highly offended God when they clamored to have a king like the heathen nations that were around them.

Took him away in my wrath. — Permitted him and the Israelites to fall before the Philistines. Others think that Shalmaneser was the king thus given, and Hoshea the king thus taken away.