Hosea 13:4-14 - Death And Resurrection
4 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: that thou shouldest know no God but me only, and that thou shouldest have no Saviour but only me. 5 I took diligent heed of thee in the wilderness, that dry land. 6 But when they were well fed and had enough, they waxed proud, and forgot me. 7 Therefore will I be unto them as a lion, and as a leopard in the way to the Assyrians. 8 I will come upon them as a she bear, that is robbed of her whelps, and I will break that stubborn heart of theirs. There will I devour them as a lion: yea the wild beast shall tear them. 9 O Israel, thou doest but destroy thyself; In me only is thy help.
10 Where are thy kings now, that shouldest help thee in all thy cities? Yea and thy judges, of whom thou sayest, "Give me a king and princes?" 11 Well, I gave thee a king in my wrath, and in my displeasure will I take him from thee again. 12 The wickedness of Ephraim is bound together, and his sin lieth hid. 13 Therefore shall sorrows come upon him, as upon a woman that travaileth. An indiscreet son is he: for he considereth not, that he should not have been able to have endured in the time of his birth,
14 had not I defended him from the grave, and delivered him from death. O death, I will be thy death: O hell, I will be thy sting.