I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
⛓ Read Hosea 13 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?' (v.55) quotes Hosea's taunt, 'O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your destruction?' (LXX). Volume is high (verbatim apostrophe to Death), and Paul fuses it with Isaiah 25:8 to climax the resurrection argument. Secure quotation.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'I will ransom them from the power of the grave (Sheol/Hades); I will redeem them from death: O death... O grave (LXX hadē), I will be thy destruction' — source for Death and Hades surrendering the dead and then being destroyed (thrown into the lake of fire). Hays: the personified Death/Hades pairing.
High confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death?' grounds the hope that death is not final, the hope Martha voices. Jesus as 'the resurrection and the life' answers Hosea's rhetorical challenge to Death. Moderate volume; coheres with the chapter's victory-over-death theme.
Medium confidenceChrist holding 'the keys of Death and of Hades' coheres with Yahweh's claim to ransom from the power of Sheol/Death and to command Death and Hades. Thematic, not verbal; supports the keys-over-death motif but is the secondary source to Isa 22:22.
Medium confidence'I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death' provides an OT oracle of death's defeat behind Christ's abolishing of death. Faint, overlapping with Isaiah 25:8.
Low confidence‘Deliver all of them who through fear of death were… subject to bondage’ (vv. 14–15) faintly sounds Hosea's promise to ransom from ‘the power of death/Sheol.’ The taunt over death's power coheres with Hebrews' deliverance theme (and with 1 Cor 15:55, which quotes it), but verbal volume here is low and the link is contested.
Low confidence