George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Hosea 13:7
Lioness. Septuagint, "panther." I will pursue them even in their captivity.
Lioness. Septuagint, "panther." I will pursue them even in their captivity.
Verse Hosea 13:7. _I WILL BE UNTO THEM AS A LION_] שחל _shachal_ is supposed to mean here the _black lion_, frequent in Ethiopia. _AS A LEOPARD_] נמר _namar_, so termed from its _spotted skin_, for _...
I WILL BE UNTO THEM AS A LION - They had waxen fat, were full; yet it was, to become themselves a prey. Their wealth which they were proud of, which they abused, allured their enemies. To cut off all...
CHAPTER 13 EPHRAIM'S RUIN AND JUDGMENT _ 1. Ruin and judgment (Hosea 13:1) _ 2. It is thy destruction, O Israel! (Hosea 13:9) 3. Mercy to follow wrath (Hosea 13:12) 4. The desolation of the nearin...
HOSEA 13:1 (= Heb. Hosea 13:1 to Hosea 14:1). FACILIS DESCENSUS AVERNO. Israel has persistently lapsed into the Baal-worship and idolatry, and therefore shall be swept away as the chaff ...
AS. LION. App-92. Compare Hosea 5:14. AS. LEOPARD. Compare Jeremiah 5:6 BY THE WAY. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "on the way of Assyria". W...
_I will be_ Rather, I HAVE BECOME. The evident decay of Israel as a nation shows that the punishment has begun (see Hosea 7:8-10). _the leopard_ Familiar to the Hebrews and Assyrians under the same na...
Israel signed his own death-warrant when he lapsed into Baal-worship. Foolish as it is to -kiss calves", they persist in the practice. Therefore the nation can but drift away, like cloud, or chaff, or...
_CONSEQUENCES OF REBELLION -- HOSEA 13:5-8:_ God took care of the nation of Israel while they were in the wilderness. He loved and accepted them because they were obedient to Him. He demonstrated His...
AS A LEOPARD, &C.— _As a leopard in the way to the Assyrians._ Houbigant....
REQUITINGGOD WILL PUNISH TEXT: Hosea 13:1-8 1 When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died, 2 And now they sin more and more, and ha...
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: THEREFORE I WILL BE UNTO THEM AS A LION - (Hosea 5:14; Lamentations 3:10, "He was unto me as a bear lying in w...
13:7 lion; (k-9) Or 'fierce lion,' as ch. 5.14....
ISRAEL'S IDOLATRY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES The main thought of this c., which is a continuation of the last (cp. Hosea 12:9; Hosea 13:4), is the folly of Israel incurring the enmity of God, who had shown...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 13 FINAL *JUDGEMENT ON ISRAEL V1 *Ephraim made himself very important in Israel. *Ephraim spoke and people shook with fear....
I WILL BE... — More correctly, _have become_... _as a panther in the way do I lie in wait._ The idea of this and the following verses is that of a Divine judgment suspended over Israel, destined soon...
וָ אֱהִ֥י לָהֶ֖ם כְּמֹו ־שָׁ֑חַל כְּ נָמֵ֖ר
THE FINAL ARGUMENT Hosea 12:1 - Hosea 14:1 THE impassioned call with which the last chapter closed was by no means an assurance of salvation: "How am I to give thee, up, Ephraim? how am I to let thee...
TO OPPOSE GOD IS DESTRUCTION Hosea 13:1-14 Again, a very tender chapter. The lips that speak with trembling betray the heart that God can exalt. But when we turn to Baal, the emblem of self-confiden...
In the second movement Jehovah set the present sin in the light of His present love. The sin of Ephraim and the sin of Judah, if the marginal reading be adopted, are both declared. The sin of Ephraim...
Turning from this main line of the divine message, we now examine the prophet's interpolations. These set forth the history of Israel indicating their relation to Jehovah, and pronounce judgment. They...
I do not presume to interpret those verses as with an eye to mercy only; no doubt they contain under several similitudes, tokens of the Lord's heavy judgments. But to the Ephraims of the Lord, those w...
The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
_THE JUDGMENT OF GOD’S ANGER_ ‘I will be unto them as a lion.’ Hosea 13:7 I. APOSTASY FROM JEHOVAH, WHICH APPEARS HERE ALSO AS ISRAEL’S CHIEF SIN, BROUGHT DEATH UPON THEM: THEY DIED (Hosea 13:1).—T...
The Prophet denounces again on the Israelites the vengeance of God; and as they were become torpid through their own flatteries, as we have already often observed, he here describes the terrible judge...
Chapter 13 is the perpetual conflict of the affections and the judgment of God. The thought of their sin calls forth the announcement of the necessary and inevitable judgment. As soon as the judgment...
THEREFORE I WILL BE UNTO THEM AS A LION, Because of their idolatry, ingratitude, luxury, and especially their forgetfulness of God, which is last mentioned, and with which the words are connected. By...
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe [them]: Ver. 7. _Therefore will I be unto them as a lion, as a leopard, &c._] Thus still God proceedeth to use similitu...
_According to their pasture_, &c. As I was their shepherd, and provided pasture for them, so they were fully fed; they had an abundant plenty of all things. _And their heart was exalted_ The consequen...
GOD'S BENEFITS SCORNED BY ISRAEL...
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion; as a leopard by the way will I observe them, lurking by the path ready to pounce upon his victims;...
1-8 While Ephraim kept up a holy fear of God, and worshipped Him in that fear, so long he was very considerable. When Ephraim forsook God, and followed idolatry, he sunk. Let the men that sacrifice k...
THEREFORE; since they have so abused my gifts by luxury, pride, and atheistical forgetfulness of me, of what I had done for them, what I deserved and expected from them, I will use them as is meet, an...
Hosea 13:7 lion H7826 leopard H5246 road H1870 lurk H7789 (H8799) Hosea 5:14;...
‘Therefore am I to them as a lion, As a leopard will I watch by the way, I will meet them as a bear which is bereaved of her whelps, And will rend the enclosure of their heart, And there will I de...
BECAUSE EPHRAIM HAVE OFFENDED SO DEEPLY, AND HAVE REJECTED THEIR DELIVERER, JUDGMENT UPON THEM IS INEVITABLE (HOSEA 13:1). The crimes of Israel are again laid bear. They are guilty of idolatry (Hosea...
Hosea 13:1. _When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel;_ When we are little in our own esteem, when we are full of fears concerning ourselves, when we dare not think of boasting, the...
Hosea was full of complaints against the people of God; for, in his day, they had very sadly wandered from the Lord. They had even forgotten him. In Hosea's prophecy, we have the plaintive voice of a...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Israel's ruin. Ultimate blessing in the kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Worldly prosperity, which feeds men's pride, makes them forgetful of God, a...
Hosea 13:2. _Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves._ The readings vary here. The LXX, “You must sacrifice men, for there are no more calves.” The Vulgate Latin reads, “Sacrifice the men that wors...
_I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought._ WILDERNESS-KNOWLEDGE God knows His people where nobody else will take any notice of them. You do not know a man until you know him i...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 13:1 The man-made gods that Israel worships are nothing compared to their actual God, who is living, active, and true to his word. ⇐...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 13:7 LION... LEOPARD... BEAR. Images of judgment (see Hosea 5:14; Amos 3:12
CRITICAL NOTES.] HOSEA 13:5. KNOW] _i.e._ cared for them, and loved them as his own (Psalms 144:3; Amos 3:2). HOSEA 13:6.] A reproof
EXPOSITION The first eight verses of this chapter form the premises from which the prophet, in the ninth verse, draws the conclusion that the conduct of Israel had been suicidal; that they had brought...
Now when Ephraim was speaking trembling (Hsa Hosea 13:1), That is, when Ephraim was not proud and exalted, but recognized their own weakness and all, then the LORD exalted himself in Israel; but whe...
Amos 1:2; Amos 3:4; Amos 3:8; Hosea 5:14; Isaiah 42:13;...
Observe them — Watch for them, that I might be sure to take them....