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Hosea 13:14

Out of the hand of hades, will I ransom them, out of death, will I redeem them, - Where is thy pestilence, O death? Where thy plague, O hades? Repentance, shall be hid from mine eyes.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Apostrophe;   Death;   God Continued...;   Grave;   Hell;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Quotations and Allusions;   Ransom;   Resurrection;   War;   Scofield Reference Index - Redemption;   Resurrection;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dead, the;   Death;   Future, the;   Grave, the;   Joys, Family;   Mortality-Immortality;   Resurrection;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Death, Natural;   Redemption;   Resurrection, the;   Warfare of Saints;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Deliver;   Hades;   Hell;   Victory;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hades;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Hell;   Hosea;   Law;   Redeemer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Compassion;   Hell;   Hosea;   Immortality;   Remnant;   Resurrection;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   Resurrection;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Descent into Hades;   Quotations;   Ransom;   Resurrection of the Dead;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Grave;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Death;   Decease, in the Old Testament and Apocyphra;   Hades;   Hosea;   Plague;   Psychology;   Ransom;   Sting;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Captivity;   Death, Views and Customs Concerning;   Memra;   Plague;   Sheol;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for May 15;   Today's Word from Skip Moen - Devotion for December 6;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
"I will save them from the grave. I will rescue them from death. Death, where are your diseases? Grave, where is your power? I am not looking for revenge.
New American Standard Bible
Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from death? Death, where are your thorns? Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion will be hidden from My sight.
New Century Version
Will I save them from the place of the dead? Will I rescue them from death? Where is your sickness, death? Where is your pain, place of death? I will show them no mercy.
New English Translation
Will I deliver them from the power of Sheol? No, I will not! Will I redeem them from death? No, I will not! O Death, bring on your plagues! O Sheol, bring on your destruction! My eyes will not show any compassion!
Update Bible Version
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from death: O Death, I will be your plague. O Sheol, I will be your destruction. repentance shall be hid from my eyes.
Webster's Bible Translation
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues, O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from my eyes.
Amplified Bible
Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol (the place of the dead)? Shall I redeem them from death? O death, where are your thorns? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes [because of their failure to repent].
English Standard Version
I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
World English Bible
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal delyuere hem fro the hoond of deeth, and Y schal ayenbie hem fro deth. Thou deth, Y schal be thi deth; thou helle, Y schal be thi mussel.
English Revised Version
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, where are thy plagues? O grave, where is thy destruction? repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Berean Standard Bible
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
Contemporary English Version
Should I, the Lord , rescue you from death and the grave? No! I call death and the grave to strike you like a plague. I refuse to show mercy.
American Standard Version
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from death: O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy destruction? repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Bible in Basic English
I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.
Complete Jewish Bible
Should I ransom them from the power of Sh'ol? Should I redeem them from death? Where are your plagues, death; where is your destruction, Sh'ol? My eyes are closed to compassion.
Darby Translation
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death: where, O death, are thy plagues? where, O Sheol, is thy destruction? Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Shall I ransom them from the power of the nether-world? Shall I redeem them from death? Ho, thy plagues, O death! Ho, thy destruction, O nether-world! Repentance be hid from Mine eyes!
King James Version (1611)
I will ransome them from the power of the graue: I will redeeme them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues, O graue, I will be thy destruction; repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
New Living Translation
"Should I ransom them from the grave? Should I redeem them from death? O death, bring on your terrors! O grave, bring on your plagues! For I will not take pity on them.
New Life Bible
I will pay the price to free them from the power of the grave. I will save them from death. O Death, where are your thorns? O Grave, where is your power to destroy? I will have no loving-pity.
New Revised Standard
Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your destruction? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I wil redeeme them from the power of the graue: I will deliuer them from death: O death, I wil be thy death: O graue, I will be thy destruction: repentance is hid from mine eyes.
George Lamsa Translation
I will save them from the power of Sheol; I will deliver them from death, O death, where is your victory? O Sheol, where is your sting? Consolation is hidden from my eyes.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite: comfort is hidden from my eyes.
Revised Standard Version
Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your destruction? Compassion is hid from my eyes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll redeeme them from the power of the graue, and deliuer them from death: O death, I wyll be thy death: O hell, I wyll be thy styng: yet can I see no comfort.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I will deliver them out of the power of Hades, and will redeem them from death: where is thy penalty, O death? O Hades, where is thy sting? comfort is hidden from mine eyes.
Good News Translation
I will not save this people from the world of the dead or rescue them from the power of death. Bring on your plagues, death! Bring on your destruction, world of the dead! I will no longer have pity for this people.
Christian Standard Bible®
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol.I will redeem them from death.Death, where are your barbs?Sheol, where is your sting?Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
Hebrew Names Version
I will ransom them from the power of She'ol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? She'ol, where is your destruction? Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
King James Version
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Lexham English Bible
Should I redeem them from the power of Sheol? Should I deliver them from death? Where are your plagues, O Death? Where is your destruction, O Sheol? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
Literal Translation
I will ransom them from the hand of Sheol; I will redeem them from death. O death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your ruin? Repentance is hidden from My eyes.
Young's Literal Translation
From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where [is] thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
had not I defended him from the graue, and delyuered him from death. O death, I wil be thy death: o hell, I wil be thy stynge.
New King James Version
"I will ransom them from the power of the grave; [fn] I will redeem them from death.O Death, I will be your plagues! [fn] O Grave, [fn] I will be your destruction! [fn] Pity is hidden from My eyes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from death? O Death, where are your thorns? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion will be hidden from My sight.
Legacy Standard Bible
Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol?Shall I redeem them from death?O Death, where are your thorns?O Sheol, where is your sting?Compassion will be hidden from My sight.

Contextual Overview

9 It hath utterly destroyed thee, O Israel, for it was against me, as thy helper! 10 Where is thy king, then, that he may save thee throughout all thy cities? and thy judges, concerning whom thou saidst, Oh give me a king and rulers? 11 I might give thee a king in mine anger, and take him away in my wrath. 12 Bound up, is the iniquity of Ephraim, stored away, his sin. 13 The pangs of a woman in labour, shall overtake him, - he, is a son, not wise, for, now, he cannot stand still, when children are about to be born. 14 Out of the hand of hades, will I ransom them, out of death, will I redeem them, - Where is thy pestilence, O death? Where thy plague, O hades? Repentance, shall be hid from mine eyes. 15 Though, he, among brethren, be fruitful, there shall come in an east wind, the blast of Yahweh out of the desert coming up, that his spring, may dry up, and his fountain, be exhausted, he, will rob the treasure-house of all the vessels of delight. 16 Samaria, shall be held guilty, for she hath rebelled against her God, By the sword, shall they fall, their infants, shall be dashed to the ground, and, his women with child, shall be ripped up.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ransom: Hosea 6:2, Job 19:25-27, Job 33:24, Psalms 16:10, Psalms 30:3, Psalms 49:15, Psalms 71:20, Psalms 86:13, Isaiah 25:8, Ezekiel 37:11-14, Romans 11:15

power: Heb. hand

O death: Isaiah 26:19, 1 Corinthians 15:21, 1 Corinthians 15:22, 1 Corinthians 15:52-57, 2 Corinthians 5:4, Philippians 3:21, 1 Thessalonians 4:14, Revelation 20:13, Revelation 21:4

repentance: Numbers 23:19, 1 Samuel 15:29, Jeremiah 15:6, Malachi 3:6, Romans 11:29, James 1:17

Reciprocal: Job 5:20 - redeem Job 41:22 - is turned into joy Jeremiah 4:28 - because Jeremiah 31:11 - redeemed Ezekiel 37:12 - I will open Daniel 12:2 - many Hosea 4:7 - they were Micah 2:13 - breaker Matthew 22:29 - not Matthew 27:52 - many Mark 12:24 - because Luke 20:36 - can John 5:28 - for John 11:24 - I know John 11:44 - he that John 16:21 - woman John 20:9 - that Acts 2:24 - because 1 Corinthians 1:30 - redemption 1 Corinthians 15:26 - General 1 Corinthians 15:55 - O death Ephesians 4:30 - the day 2 Timothy 1:10 - who Hebrews 2:14 - destroy Revelation 6:8 - was Death Revelation 20:14 - death

Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
So Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the circuit of the Jordan, that the whole of it, was well-watered, - before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the Garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as thou enterest into Zoar.
Genesis 28:14
And thy seed shall become as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt break forth westward and eastward, and northward and southward, - And all the families of the ground shall be blessed in thee and in thy seed.
Deuteronomy 3:27
Ascend the top of the Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes - westward, and northward and southward and eastward - and see with thine own eyes, - for thou shalt not pass over this Jordan.
Isaiah 49:18
Lift up, round about, thine eyes and see, All those, have gathered themselves together - have come to thee! As I live, Declareth Yahweh, - Surely all those as an ornament, shalt thou put on, And bind them about thee for a girdle as a bride.
Isaiah 60:4
Lift up - round about - thine eyes and see, They all, have gathered themselves together - have come to thee, - Thy sons, from afar shall come, And thy daughters, on the side, shall he carried.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will ransom them from the power of the grave,.... That is, "when" or "at which time" before spoken of, and here understood, as the above interpreter rightly connects the words, "I will" do this and what follows:

I will redeem them from death; these are the words, not of Jehovah the Father, as in Hosea 1:7; but of the Son, who redeemed Israel out of Egypt, which was a typical redemption, Hosea 13:4; in whom is the help of his people laid and found, Hosea 13:9; the Word of the Lord, as the Targum; who is the true God, the mighty God, and so equal to this work of redemption and who is also the near kinsman of the redeemed as one of the words here used implies, and so to him belonged the right of redemption: the persons redeemed are not Israel after the flesh, but spiritual Israel, whether Jews or Gentiles; a special and peculiar people, chosen of God, and precious, out of every kindred, tongue, people, and nation; and who, in their nature state, are under sin, in bondage to it, and liable to the curse of the law, the wrath of God, hell and damnation; which are meant by the "grave" and "death", and so needed a Redeemer to ransom them: for the word for "grace" should be rendered "hell" q, as it often is; and "death" intends not corporeal one only, but eternal death, or the second death; and both signify the wrath of God due to sin, and which God's elect are deserving of, and Christ has bore, and delivered them from; and the curse of the law, which he has redeemed them from, being made a curse for them; and eternal death, the equivalent to which he has suffered, and so has saved them from it, and all this by redeeming them from their sins, the cause of it; and which he has done by giving a redemption or ransom price, which is his blood, his life, yea, himself, and which the first of the words here used imports. It is indeed true, that, in consequence of all this, there will be a redemption by him from a corporeal death, and from the grave; not as yet, for the ransomed of the Lord die as others, and are laid in the grave, the house appointed for all living; but in the resurrection morn there will be a redemption, a deliverance of the bodies of the saints from the grave, from mortality and corruption; yea, of them from the moral corruption of sin, and all the defilements of it, as well as from all afflictions and diseases, and from death itself, which shall have no more dominion over them; to which purpose the words are applied by the apostle;

Hosea 13:9- :; and so by some ancient Jews r to the Messiah, and his times;

O death, I will be thy plagues; O grace, I will be thy destruction; that is, the utter destruction of them for the plague or pestilence is a wasting destruction, Psalms 91:6; it is the same which in New Testament language is the abolishing of death, 2 Timothy 1:10; which is true of eternal death with respect to the redeemed, which Christ's death is the death of, he having by his death reconciled them to God, and opened the way to eternal life for them, which he has in his hands to give unto them; and of corporeal death and the grave, which Christ has utterly destroyed with respect to himself having loosed the builds of death, and set himself free, and on whom that shall have no more dominion; and, with respect to his pie, he has destroyed him that had the power of it, which is the devil; he has put away and abolished sin, the cause of it; he has took away that which is its sting; so that it may be truly said, as the apostle quotes these words, "O death, where is thy sting?" he has removed the curse from it, and made it a blessing; he has abolished it as a penal evil, so theft it is not inflicted as a punishment on his people; and in the last day will entirely deliver them from the power of that, and of the grave; and then that which has slain its millions and millions, a number not to be numbered, will never slay one more: and that grave, which devoured as many, will never be opened more, or one more put into it; and then it may be said, "O grave, where is thy victory?" thou shall conquer no more, but be at an end; see 1 Corinthians 15:55;

repentance shall be hid from mine eyes; that is, the Lord will never repent of his decree of redemption from hell, death, and the grave; nor of the work of it by Christ; nor of the entire destruction of these things; which being once done, will never be repented of nor recalled, but remain so for ever.

q שאול "inferni", Schmidt. r Gloss. Heb. in Lyra in loc. Vid. Galatin. Arcan. Cathol. Ver. l. 6. c. 21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will ransom them from the power of the grave - Literally, “from the hand,” i. e., the “grasp of the grave,” or “of hell.” God, by His prophets, mingles promises of mercy in the midst of His threats of punishment. His mercy overflows the bounds of the occasion upon which He makes it known. He had sentenced Ephraim to temporal destruction. This was unchangeable. He points to that which turns all temporal less into gain, their eternal redemption. The words are the fullest which could have been chosen. The word rendered “ransom,” signifies, rescued them by the payment of a price, the word rendered “redeem,” relates to one, who, as the nearest of kin, had the right to acquire anything as his own, by paying that price. Both words, in their exactest sense, describe what Jesus did, buying us “with a price,” a full and dear price, “not of corruptible things, as of silver and gold, but with His precious blood” 1 Peter 1:18-19; and that, becoming our near kinsman, by His Incarnation, “for which cause He is not ashamed to call us brethren Hebrews 2:11, and “little children” John 13:33.

This was never done by God at any other time, than when, out of love for our lost world, “He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” John 3:16; and He “came to give His life a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:28, add 1 Timothy 2:6). Then only was man really delivered from the “grasp” of the “grave;” so that “the first death” should only be a freedom from corruption, an earnest, and, to fallen man, a necessary condition of immortality; man “the second death” should “have no power over” them Revelation 20:6. : Thenceforward “death, the parent of sorrow, ministers to joy; death, our dishonor, is employed to our glory; the “gate of hell” is the portal to the kingdom of heaven; the “pit of destruction” is the entrance to salvation; and that to man, a sinner.” At no other time , “were men freed from death and the grave, so as to make any distinction between them and others subject to mortality.” The words refuse to be tied down to a temporal deliverance. A little longer continuance in Canaan is not a redemption from the power of the grave; nor was Ephraim so delivered. Words of God , “cannot mean so little, while they express so much.” Then and then alone were they, in their literal meaning, fulfilled when God the Son “took” our flesh, “that, through death, He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil; and deliver them who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage” Hebrews 2:14-15.

The Jews have a tradition wrapped up in their way, that this was to be accomplished in Christ. : “I went with the angel Kippod, and Messiah son of David went with me, until I came to the gates of hell. When the prisoners of hell saw the light of the Messiah, they wished to receive him, saying, this is he who will bring us out of this darkness, as it is written, ‘I will redeem them from the hand of hell. ‘“

: “Not without reason is the vouchsafed mercy thus once and again outspoken to us, “I will ranson them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death.” It is said in regard to that twofold death whereby we all died in Adam, of the body and of the soul.” “O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction.” So full is God’s word, that the sense remains the same, amid much difference of rendering. Christ was the death of death, when He became subject to it; the destruction of the grave when He lay in the tomb. Yet to render it in the form of a question is most agreeable to the language. “O death, where are thy plagues? O grave, where is thy destruction?” It is a burst of triumph at the promised redemption, then fulfilled to us in earnest and in hope, when “Christ,” being “risen from the dead, became the First-fruits of them that slept” 1 Corinthians 15:20, and we rose in Him. But the Apostle teaches us, that then it shall be altogether fulfilled, when, at the Last Day, “this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality” 1 Corinthians 15:54. “Then shall death and hell deliver up the dead which shall be in them, and themselves be cast into the lake of fire” Revelation 20:13-14. “Then shall there be no sting of death; sorrow and sighing shall flee away; fear and anxiety shall depart; tears shall be no more, and in place thereof shall be boundless pleasure, everlasting joy, praise of the glory of God in most sweet harmony.” But now too, through death, the good man “ceases to die, and begins to live;” he “dies wholly to the world, that he may live perfectly with God; the soul returns to the Author of its being, and is hidden in the hidden presence of God” .

Death and hell had no power to resist, and God says that He will not alter His sentence; “Repentance shall be hid from Mine eyes;” as the Apostle says, “the gifts and calling of God are with out repentance” Romans 11:29.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 13:14. I will ransom them from the power of the grave — In their captivity they are represented as dead and buried, which is a similar view to that taken of the Jews in the Babylonish captivity by Ezekiel in his vision of the valley of dry bones. They are now lost as to the purpose for which they were made, for which God had wrought so many miracles for them and for their ancestors; but the gracious purpose of God shall not be utterly defeated. He will bring them out of that grave, and ransom them from that death; for as they have deserved that death and disgraceful burial, they must be redeemed and ransomed from it, or still lie under it. And who can do this but God himself? And he will do it. In the prospect of this the prophet exclaims, in the person of the universal Redeemer, "O death, I will be thy plagues;" I will bring into thy reign the principle of its destruction. The Prince of life shall lie for a time under thy power, that he may destroy that power.

O grave, I will be thy destruction — I will put an end to thy dreary domination by rising from the dead, and bringing life and immortality to life by my Gospel, and by finally raising from the death the whole human race in the day of the general resurrection.

שאול sheol, which we translate grave, is the state of the dead. מות maveth, which we translate death, is the principle of corruption that renders the body unfit to be longer the tenement of the soul, and finally decomposes it. Sheol shall be destroyed, for it must deliver up all its dead. Maveth shall be annihilated, for the body shall be raised incorruptible. See the use which the apostle makes of this passage, 1 Corinthians 15:54-55; but he does not quote from the Hebrew, nor from any of the ancient versions. He had to apply the subject anew; and the Spirit, which had originally given the words, chose to adapt them to the subject then in hand, which was the resurrection of the dead in the last day. Instead of דבריך debareycha, thy plagues, one of my oldest MSS., ninety-six of Kennicott's and thirty-two of De Rossi's, have דברך debarcha, thy plague, that which shall carry thee off, as the plague does them who are affected by it. To carry off, carry away, is one of the regular meanings of the verb דבר dabar.

Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. — On these points I will not change my purpose; this is the signification of repentance when attributed to God.


 
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