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Hosea 13:5

Hosea 13:5 is verse 5 of Hosea chapter 13, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

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King James Version

I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

World English Bible

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

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Hosea 13:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.

4 Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me.

5 I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

6 When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.

7 So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Exodus 2:25

God saw the Israelites and took notice.

Psalms 1:6

For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

Psalms 31:7

I will be glad and rejoice in Your loving devotion, for You have seen my affliction; You have known the anguish of my soul.

Psalms 142:3

Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.

Nahum 1:7

The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But the one who loves God is known by God.

Galatians 4:9

But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

Deuteronomy 2:7

Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.

Deuteronomy 8:15

He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.

Deuteronomy 32:10

He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

Jeremiah 2:2

“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’

Psalms 63:1

O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

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