THEOSISHosea 13:5Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
I knew thee in the desert, in the land of the wilderness.
אֲנִ֥י יְדַעְתִּ֖יךָ בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר בְּאֶ֖רֶץ תַּלְאֻבֽוֹת׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 32:10He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.
- Deut 8:15And was thy leader in the great and terrible wilderness, wherein there was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and the dipsas, and no waters at all: who brought forth streams out of the hardest rock,
- Deut 2:7The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every work of thy hands: the Lord thy God dwelling with thee, knoweth thy journey, how thou hast passed through this great wilderness, for forty years, and thou hast wanted nothing.
- Gal 4:9But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known by God: how turn you again to the weak and needy elements which you desire to serve again?
- Ex 2:25And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew them.
- Ps 63 (62):1
- Nah 1:7The Lord is good, and giveth strength in the day of trouble: and knoweth them that hope in him.
- Ps 142 (141):3