Hosea 13:6 When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot me.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot me.

English Standard Version
but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.

New American Standard Bible
As they had their pasture, they became satisfied, And being satisfied, their heart became proud; Therefore they forgot Me.

King James Bible
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When they had pasture, they became satisfied; they were satisfied, and their hearts became proud. Therefore they forgot Me.

International Standard Version
As their pastures flourished, all their desires were met. As they were satiated, they became arrogant and therefore ignored me.

American Standard Version
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.

Darby Bible Translation
According to their pasture, they became full; they became full, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.

Young's Literal Translation
According to their feedings they are satiated, They have been satiated, And their heart is lifted up, Therefore they have forgotten Me,

Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:12
Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelled therein;

Deuteronomy 8:14
Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

Deuteronomy 32:13
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

Proverbs 30:9
Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

Jeremiah 5:7
How shall I pardon you for this? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

Ezekiel 23:35
Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your prostitutions.

Ezekiel 28:5
By your great wisdom and by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches:

Hosea 2:7
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

Hosea 2:13
And I will visit on her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, said the LORD.

Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

13:1-8 While Ephraim kept up a holy fear of God, and worshipped Him in that fear, so long he was very considerable. When Ephraim forsook God, and followed idolatry, he sunk. Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves, in token of their adoration of them, affection for them, and obedience to them; but the Lord will not give his glory to another, and therefore all that worship images shall be confounded. No solid, lasting comfort, is to be expected any where but in God. God not only took care of the Israelites in the wilderness, he put them in possession of Canaan, a good land; but worldly prosperity, when it feeds men's pride, makes them forgetful of God. Therefore the Lord would meet them in just vengeance, as the most terrible beast that inhabited their forests. Abused goodness calls for greater severity.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. Image from cattle, waxing wanton in abundant pasture (compare Ho 2:5, 8; De 32:13-15). In proportion as I fed them to the full, they were so satiated that "their heart was exalted"; a sad contrast to the time when, by God's blessing, Ephraim truly "exalted himself in Israel" (Ho 13:1).

therefore have they forgotten me—the very reason why men should remember God (namely, prosperity, which comes from Him) is the cause often of their forgetting Him. God had warned them of this danger (De 6:11, 12).