725. 4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have A.C. About made princes, and I knew it not of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. 5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? 6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God; but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. 7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no * stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: *Or, standing if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. 8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired + lovers. corn. + Heb. loves. 10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the Or, begin. burden of the king of princes. 11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. 12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. 13 § They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. 14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. Or, In the mine offerings sacrifices of they, &c. HOSEA IX. The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins and idolatry. 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a Pre- p Jer. xliv. 17. ward upon every cornfloor. || Or, in, &c. 2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and Or, winefat. the new wine shall fail in her. 3 They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim &c. viii. 13 shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in into Egypt itAssyria. 4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof self, but into another bondage as bad a that. A.C. About shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD. 725. Heb. spoil. + Or, their 5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? 6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: +the desired, the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles. silver shall be nettle, &c. Heb. the desire. 7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence Heb. man of are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, § the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. the spirit. 8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the || Or, against. prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred || in the house of his God. 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days r Judges xix. of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. 22. 3. 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: Num. xxv. but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved. * Heb. that casteth the fruit. t ch. xii. 11. 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. 12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! 13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. 14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. * 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. 16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay + Heb. the de- even the beloved fruit of their womb. sires. 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations. HOSEA X. Israel is reproved and threatened for their impiety and idolatry. * 725. 1 Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto A. C. About himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly + images. 2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be faulty: he shall § break down their altars, he shall their images. Or, a vine emptying the fruit which it giveth. found +Heb. statues, spoil or, standing 3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us? 4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. 5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over + Or, He hath divided their heart. (Heb. behead. it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory Or, Chemathereof, because it is departed from it. rim. 6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to "king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall u ch. v. 13. be ashamed of his own counsel. 7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water. * Heb. the 8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be face of the destroyed the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us. 9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them. 10 It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows. I. ii. 19. Luke xxiii. 30. Rev. vi. 16. & ix. 6. +Or, when I shall bind them for their two transgres their two ha 11 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth sions, or, in to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: bitations. I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob beauty of her shall break his clods. + Heb. the neck. 12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the y Jer. iv. 3. LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. 13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men. 14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled A.C. About Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children. 725. z 2 Kings xviii. 34. & xix. 13. Heb. the evil of your evil. a Matt. ii. 15. 15 So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off. HOSEA XI. 1 The ingratitude of Israel unto God for his benefits. 5 His judgment. 8 God's mercy toward them. a 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. 3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. 4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love : † Heb. lift up, and I was to them as they that take + off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. cir. 728. 5¶ He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return. 6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall conThey became sume his branches, and devour them, because of their own Salmanasser. Counsels. tributaries to 7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all ther they ex would exalt him. Heb. toge alted not. b Gen. xix. 24. Amos iv. 11. b 8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. 9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city. 10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west. 11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD. 12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit : but Judah yet ruleth with God, and Or, with the is faithful § with the saints. most holy. HOSEA XII. 1 A reproof of Ephraim, Judah, and Jacob. 3. By former favours he exhorteth to repentance. 7 Ephraim's sins provoke God. 725. 1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east A. C. About wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt. 2 The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will *punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. с * Heb. visit upon. c 26. Gen. xxv. + Heb. was a prince, or, be 3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he + had power with God: 4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in d Gen. xxxii, Beth-el, and there he spake with us; prevailed:haved himself 5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his morial. princely. 24, &c. e Gen. xxxv. 9, 10. me- f Ex. iii. 15. 6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. 7¶He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his Or, Canaan. hand he loveth to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: || in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin. 9 And I that am the LORD thy God from the land Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in days of the solemn feasts. Or, deceive. labours suffice me not: he shall have pu of nishment of iniquity in the whom is sin. *Heb. which. 10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, + by the ministry of the He by the prophets. g hand. Il Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as ch. iv. 15. & heaps in the furrows of the field. 12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel bserved for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep. 13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved. 14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his § blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him. HOSEA XIII. 1 Ephraim's glory, by reason of idolatry, vanisheth. 5 God's anger for their unkindness. 9 A promise of God's mercy. 15 A judgment for rebellion.. 1 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. ix. 15. h Gen. xxix. 20, 28. Ex. xii. 50, 51. & xiii. 3. Heb with § Heb. bloods. bitternesses. |