George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Hosea 7:13
Lies, attributing their deliverance to the golden calf, (3 Kings xii. 28.; Calmet; Exodus xxxii. 8.; Menochius) and always denying my justice and power.
Lies, attributing their deliverance to the golden calf, (3 Kings xii. 28.; Calmet; Exodus xxxii. 8.; Menochius) and always denying my justice and power.
Verse Hosea 7:13. _WO UNTO THEM!_] They shall have _wo_, because they _have_ _fled from me_. They shall have _destruction_, because they _have_ _transgressed against me_. _THOUGH I HAVE REDEEMED THEM...
WOE UNTO THEM, FOR THEY HAVE FLED FROM ME - The threatening rises in severity, as did the measure of their sin. Whereas “Salvation belonged to God” Psalms 3:8 alone, and they only “abide under His sha...
CHAPTER 7 The Moral Depravity of Israel _ 1. Their moral depravity (Hosea 7:1) _ 2. Mingling with heathen nations (Hosea 7:8) Hosea 7:1. All the gracious efforts of the Lord to heal Israel resulted...
HOSEA 7:8 TO HOSEA 8:3. POLITICAL DECAY THE OUTWARD SIGN OF ISRAEL'S MORAL DECAY. The attempts to cure national ills and secure safety by foreign aid, instead of by turning to Yahweh, are foredoomed t...
TRANSGRESSED. revolted. Hebrew. _pash_ a', as in Hosea 14:9. Not the same word as in Hosea 6:7, and Hosea 8:1. I HAVE REDEEMED THEM. Reference to Pentateuch ...
_they have fled from me_ like birds scared out of their nest (Isaiah 16:2); but the Israelites have only themselves to blame for the fatal consequence. They have left their true home, and shall find n...
_ISRAEL TRIED EVERYTHING BUT GOD -- HOSEA 7:11-13:_ Israel sought the strength of other nations as a replacement for their dependence upon God. Ephraim is like a silly dove. She does not have heart or...
DISCOURSE: 1160 GUILT AND DANGER OF AN UNCONVERTED STATE Hosea 7:13. _Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeem...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDELOVE OF SIN TEXT: Hosea 7:8-16 8 Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea...
Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. WOE UNTO THEM! FOR T...
7:13 speak (e-26) Or 'I redeemed them, but they have spoken. ...'...
CORRUPTION OF THE COURT In this chapter the tone again becomes despondent. How can Israel be saved when her iniquity is so deep, so glaring, so obstinate? Samaria is especially instanced as the centr...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 7 V1 I want to heal my people Israel! Then people will know that *Ephraim has *sinned....
FLED. — The word thus translated is used of the wandering flight of birds, and arises naturally out of the images employed in Hosea 7:11. (13) THOUGH I HAVE REDEEMED. — Should be, _Though I would fai...
אֹ֤וי לָהֶם֙ כִּֽי ־נָדְד֣וּ מִמֶּ֔נִּי שֹׁ֥ד...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
1. THE CONFUSION OF THE NATION Hosea 7:8; Hosea 8:1 Hosea begins by summing up the public aspect of Israel in two epigrams, short but of marvelous adequacy:-Hosea 7:8 "Ephraim-among the nations he...
INIQUITY UNCOVERED Hosea 7:1-16 The last clause of the previous chapter belongs to this. God desired to turn aside the captivity of His people and to heal Israel, but His pleading was unavailing beca...
The prophet then declared more particularly the true state of affairs. The divine desire to heal was frustrated by the pollution and the people's persistent ignoring of God. Hosea graphically describe...
Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have (k) redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. (k) That is, at dif...
We have here a continuation of the same subject, namely, the Lord's remonstrance with Israel. But I pray the Reader to observe, how many sweet and gracious expressions of our God are mingled with his...
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...
IX. HOSEA 7:8-9 (NASB) EPHRAIM MIXES HIMSELF WITH THE NATIONS; EPHRAIM HAS BECOME A CAKE NOT TURNED. 9 STRANGERS DEVOUR HIS STRENGTH, YET HE DOES NOT KNOW [IT]; GRAY HAIRS ALSO ARE SPRINKLED ON HIM,...
Here the Prophet takes away from the Israelites the hope of pardon, and declares that it was all over with them, for God had now resolved to destroy them. For as God everywhere declares himself to be...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this resource, beca...
WOE UNTO THEM, FOR THEY HAVE FLED FROM ME,.... From the Lord, from his worship, and the place of it; from obedience to him, and the service of him; as birds fly from their nests, and leave their young...
Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. Ver. 13. _Woe unto them...
_Wo unto them_, &c. These are words both of menace and lamentation. The prophet at once foretels and bewails their miseries. _For they have fled from me_ As if it had not been enough that they at firs...
HYPOCRISY REBUKED...
Woe unto them! For they have fled from Me, forsaking the one Rock of their salvation. DESTRUCTION UNTO THEM! BECAUSE THEY HAVE TRANSGRESSED AGAINST ME, they have rebelled and thereby forsaken Him, who...
DESTRUCTION: _ Heb._ spoil...
8-16 Israel was as a cake not turned, half burnt and half dough, none of it fit for use; a mixture of idolatry and of the worship of Jehovah. There were tokens of approaching ruin, as grey hairs are...
WOE UNTO THEM! it is the voice both of menace and lamentation, the prophet doth at once foretell and bewail their miseries. THEY HAVE FLED FROM ME; as if it were not enough that they did at first leav...
Hosea 7:13 Woe H188 fled H5074 (H8804) Destruction H7701 transgressed H6586 (H8804) redeemed H6299 (H8799) spoken...
‘Woe to them! for they have fled from me, Destruction to them! for they have trespassed (rebelled) against me, Though I would redeem them, Yet they have spoken lies against me.' YHWH now pronounces...
EPHRAIM (ISRAEL) ARE PICTURED AS A HAPLESS DOVE FLUTTERING BETWEEN EGYPT AND ASSYRIA AS THEY ENDEAVOUR TO AVOID YHWH'S NET (HOSEA 7:11). Ephraim are now depicted as being willing to do anything rather...
REDEEMED (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 59:20). _ (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 14:30). _...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response to Israel's, cry, continued. Israel's sad state. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If sinful souls are not healed and helped, but perish in their sin and misery, they cannot...
Hosea 7:1. _When I would have healed Israel,_ by Jehu's zeal for the Lord, then the idolatrous priests, like troops of robbers, gathered round him with lies in their mouth, and persuaded him to retain...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:4 Hosea compares Israel to an oven (vv. Hosea 7:4), a half-baked cake (vv. Hosea 7:8), a silly dove (vv....
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 7:11. DOVE] A type of simplicity (Matthew 10:16). SILLY] Simplicity. WITHOUT HEART] Lit, without understanding, easily taken in the net (Ezekiel 12:13)....
EXPOSITION This chapter may be divided into three sections. In the first section, including Hosea 7:1, the prophet reproves with much but deserved severity the depraved morals of king and princes. In...
The Lord continues His response to them. When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in...
1 John 1:10; 1 Peter 1:18; 1 Peter 1:19; Deuteronomy 15:15; Ezeki
Spoken lies — They belied his corrections as if not deserved; they belied the good done, as if too little, or not done by God, but by their idol....