Hosea 13:5
New International Version
I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of burning heat.

New Living Translation
I took care of you in the wilderness, in that dry and thirsty land.

English Standard Version
It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought;

Berean Standard Bible
I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

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

New King James Version
I knew you in the wilderness, In the land of great drought.

New American Standard Bible
I cared for you in the wilderness, In the land of drought.

NASB 1995
I cared for you in the wilderness, In the land of drought.

NASB 1977
I cared for you in the wilderness, In the land of drought.

Legacy Standard Bible
I Myself knew you in the wilderness, In the land of drought.

Amplified Bible
I knew and regarded you and cared for you in the wilderness, In the land of drought.

Christian Standard Bible
I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I shepherded you in the wilderness in a desolate land without inhabitant

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I tended thee as a shepherd in the wilderness, in an uninhabited land.

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

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I took care of you in the desert, in a dry land.

Good News Translation
I took care of you in a dry, desert land.

International Standard Version
I took care of you in the wilderness, in a waterless land.

JPS Tanakh 1917
I did know thee in the wilderness, In the land of great drought.

Literal Standard Version
I have known you in a wilderness, | In a land of droughts.

Majority Standard Bible
I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

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

NET Bible
I cared for you in the wilderness, in the dry desert where no water was.

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

New Heart English Bible
I fed you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

Webster's Bible Translation
I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drouth.

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

Young's Literal Translation
I -- I have known thee in a wilderness, In a land of droughts.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
God's Anger
4Yet 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. 5I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought. 6When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.…

Cross References
Genesis 31:40
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

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.


Treasury of Scripture

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

know.

Exodus 2:25
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

Psalm 1:6
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Psalm 31:7
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:7
For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

Deuteronomy 8:15
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

great drought.

Psalm 63:1
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

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Verse 5. - I did know thee in the wilderness. The pronoun at the beginning of the verse is emphatic: As for me; or, I it was that knew thee. The meaning of the sentiment is: I acknowledged thee with kindness, with paternal care and kind providence watching over thee. "Thou shouldest gratefully acknowledge me," is the comment of Kimchi, "because I knew thee in the wilderness, and cared for thy necessity in the wilderness, in which there were no means of livelihood." In the land of great drought. The root of the word תַּלְאוּבֹת is לאב, unused in Hebrew, but signifying, in Arabic, "to burn, dry, be dry," akin to לָחַב. Aben Ezra correctly explains it to be "a dry and thirsty laud, and so in the Arabic language; and (that it is so called) on account of all hardships being in it, is the allegorical explanation and not the literal sense." Instead of a lengthened enumeration of all God's loving-kindnesses to Israel at the Exodus and during the desert wanderings, the prophet sums up all in the expressive, "the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt;" and "I it was that did know thee in the wilderness." It is as though he had said, "I pitied thee in the bondage and among the brick-kilns of Egypt; I brought thee forth with a strong hand and outstretched arm; I led thee through the wilderness; I relieved thee in thy straits; I gave thee bread from heaven to satisfy thy hunger, and water from the rock to quench thy thirst; I defended thee from enemies; nor did I relax my care till I gave thee the goodly laud of promise."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I
אֲנִ֥י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

knew you
יְדַעְתִּ֖יךָ (yə·ḏa‘·tî·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

in the wilderness,
בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר (bam·miḏ·bār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech

in the land
בְּאֶ֖רֶץ (bə·’e·reṣ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

of drought.
תַּלְאֻבֽוֹת׃ (tal·’u·ḇō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8514: Desiccation


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