George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Hosea 7:9
Strangers: kings of Assyria, Damascus, &c. --- Hairs. He is grown old in misery, and yet is insensible of it, and sees not that he will shortly cease to be a people, Isaias vii. 8.
Strangers: kings of Assyria, Damascus, &c. --- Hairs. He is grown old in misery, and yet is insensible of it, and sees not that he will shortly cease to be a people, Isaias vii. 8.
Verse Hosea 7:9. _GRAY HAIRS ARE HERE AND THERE UPON HIM, YET HE KNOWETH_ _NOT._] The kingdom is grown old in iniquity; the time of their captivity is at hand, and they are apprehensive of no danger....
STRANGERS HAVE DEVOURED HIS STRENGTH, AND HE KNOWETH IT NOT - Like Samson, when, for sensual pleasure, he had betrayed the source of his strength and God had departed from him, lsrael knew not how or...
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...
STRANGERS. Outsiders. Compare Hosea 8:7. HERE AND THERE. sprinkled....
_Strangers have devoured his strength_ By heavy tribute and desolating invasions. The -strangers" would be Hazael and Benhadad (2 Kings 8:12; 2 Kings 10:32-33; 2 Kings 13:3;...
_ISRAEL DID NOT CALL ON GOD -- HOSEA 7:7-10:_ The sins and iniquities of the people were so widespread that they engulfed judges and other leading men in society. Sin was popular and Israel did not ca...
DISCOURSE: 1159 CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS OF SPIRITUAL DECAY Hosea 7:8. _Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people: Ephraim is a cake not turned. Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth...
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...
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. STRANGERS HAVE DEVOURED HIS STRENGTH - "strangers" - foreigners: the Sy...
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...
STRANGERS.. STRENGTH] the natural consequence of seeking help from a foreign alliance, which meant the exaction of what was practically tribute, and consequently heavy taxation (2 Kings 15:20). Israel...
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....
HAVE DEVOURED. — The past tense may refer to the invasions of Tiglath-pileser. Both Egypt and Assyria had come to regard Israel as the earthen pipkin between iron pots. These strangers have devoured h...
אָכְל֤וּ זָרִים֙ כֹּחֹ֔ו וְ ה֖וּא לֹ֣א יָדָ֑ע
A PEOPLE IN DECAY: 2. POLITICALLY Hosea 7:8 MORAL decay means political decay. Sins like these are the gangrene of nations. It is part of Hosea's greatness to have traced this, a proof of that versat...
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...
A PEOPLE IN DECAY: 1 MORALLY Hosea 4:1 - Hosea 7:7 PURSUING the plan laid down in the last chapter, we now take the section of Hosea's discourse which lies between chapter 4 and Hosea 7:7. Chapter 4...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
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...
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yea, (g) gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. (g) Which are a token of his manifold afflictions....
I include all these verses under one view; for they are all to the same amount. They represent the same melancholy truth, only by different figures. The heart of man ready like an oven, always heated;...
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...
_UNCONSCIOUS DEGENERATION_ (_For the New Year_) ‘Gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.’ Hosea 7:9 THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ANOTHER YEAR.—A new year with new possibilities. Let us...
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,...
The Prophet follows the same subject, that is, that Israel had not repented, though the Lord had in various ways invited them to repentance; yea, and constrained them by his scourges. It is indeed a p...
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...
STRANGERS HAVE DEVOURED HIS STRENGTH,.... Or his substance, as the Targum; his wealth and riches, fortresses and strong holds: these strangers were either the Syrians, who, in the times of Jehoahaz, d...
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. Ver. 9. _Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not_]...
_Ephraim, he hath mixed among the people_ By his alliances with the heathen, and by imitation of their manners, he is himself become one of them. He has thrown off all the distinctions, and forfeited...
THE MORAL CORRUPTION OF ISRAEL...
Strangers have devoured his strength, partly on account of the wars waged against Israel, partly as a consequence of the heathen ways which had been adopted in the northern kingdom, AND HE KNOWETH IT...
HERE AND THERE: _ Heb._ sprinkled...
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...
STRANGERS; foreigners, whose aid Ephraim sought, as 2 KINGS 15:19,20, when Menahem bought the friendship of Pul king of Assyria for one thousand talents of silver, and impoverished the land thereby. H...
Hosea 7:9 Aliens H2114 (H8801) devoured H398 (H8804) strength H3581 know H3045 (H8804) hairs H7872 there...
‘Strangers have devoured his strength, And he does not know it. Ephraim's vulnerable situation is underlined by the fact that it has lost its wealth to the nations, either by tribute, bribes or treat...
IN TURNING TO FOREIGN NATIONS FOR THEIR SUPPORT INSTEAD OF TURNING TO YHWH, EPHRAIM DO NOT REALISE WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES WILL BE (HOSEA 7:8). Hosea now parodies the people's attempts to find help from...
Hosea 7:9 Gray hairs are a sign of decay. They are here the marks of age, the premonitory symptoms of dissolution; and so the truth the text announces is that men, many men, live in ignorance, and ac...
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...
_Grey hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not._ NEGLECTED WARNINGS I. Grey hairs are a sign of decay. God has for wise purposes given distinctive features to the different periods of hu...
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 7:8. MIXED] by leagues and adoption of idolatrous customs. The Heb. indicates a mixing which disorders and involves confusion. A CAKE] burned at the bottom and sad at the top,—...
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...
2 Kings 13:22; 2 Kings 13:3; 2 Kings 15:19; Hosea 8:7; Isaiah 42:22
Knoweth it not — He is not aware of the loss he hath sustained. Gray hairs — Of old age and declining strength are upon their kingdom....