Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hosea 13:4

"Yet I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt; and thou shalt know no god but me, and besides me there is no saviour." — Hosea 13:4 (ASV)

Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.

Now, here is the wickedness of idolatry: that we have so good a God, and yet we must look for another.

Here is the sin of trusting in an arm of flesh: that we have an almighty arm to lean upon, and instead of doing so, we begin to look to a feeble arm that does not have enough strength to support itself, much less to support us.

Are any of you children of God forgetting your God? Is your faith turning away from the great Invisible, and the sure promises of His Word? Are you looking to the creature? Beware of it, I urge you; whenever you do that, you are making a rod for your own back.

If you forsake the Lord, to whom will you go?