Bible verse

Hosea 13:11

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

Hosea 13:11 · BSB

Hosea 13:11 in context

The verses around it, from Hosea 13.

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

8 Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart.

9 You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me—against your helper.

10 Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

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

12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.

13 Labor pains come upon him, but he is an unwise son. When the time arrives, he fails to present himself at the opening of the womb.

14 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.

15 Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.

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Hosea 13:11 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

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

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