Hosea 13:5
Good News Translation
I took care of you in a dry, desert land.

New Revised Standard Version
It was I who fed you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

Contemporary English Version
I took care of you in a thirsty desert.

New American Bible
I fed you in the wilderness, in the parched land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I knew thee in the desert, in the land of the wilderness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I knew thee in the desert, in the land of the wilderness.

know.

Exodus 2:25 And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew them.

Psalm 1:6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou hast regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.

Psalm 142:3 When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me.

Nahum 1:7 The Lord is good, and giveth strength in the day of trouble: and knoweth them that hope in him.

1 Corinthians 8:3 But if any man love God, the same is known by him.

Galatians 4:9 But 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?

in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:7 The 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.

Deuteronomy 8:15 And 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,

Deuteronomy 32:10 He 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.

Jeremiah 2:2,6 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: I have remembered thee, pitying thy youth, and the love of thy espousals, when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land that is not sown. . . .

great drought.

Psalm 63:1 A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!

Context
God's Anger
4But I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt: and thou shalt know no God but me, and there is no saviour beside me. 5I knew thee in the desert, in the land of the wilderness.6According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.…
Cross References
Genesis 31:40
Day and night was I parched with heat, and with frost, and sleep departed from my eyes.

Deuteronomy 2:7
The 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.

Deuteronomy 8:15
And 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,

Deuteronomy 32:10
He 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.

Hosea 13:4
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