Hosea 13:4

⁴“But I have been the Lord your God ever since you came out of Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me.a

Hosea 13 is the prophet's final, devastating indictment of Israel before the book's closing call to repentance. The chapter traces Israel's downward spiral from prosperity to pride, from pride to idolatry, and from idolatry to self-destruction. God recalls how he delivered them from