Hosea 13:1-8
GOD'S BENEFITS SCORNED BY ISRAEL... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD'S BENEFITS SCORNED BY ISRAEL... [ Continue Reading ]
When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel, rather, "When Ephraim," as the mightiest of the northern tribes, "spoke, there was trembling"; for the other tribes were so much weaker that they could not hold out against the leading tribe; he exalted himself in Israel, assuming the leade... [ Continue Reading ]
And now, after idolatry had thus been introduced, THEY SIN MORE AND MORE, multiplying their transgressions, AND HAVE MADE THEM MOLTEN IMAGES OF THEIR SILVER AND IDOLS ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN UNDERSTANDING, making use of their ideas of art in constructing these statues, ALL OF IT THE WORK OF THE CRAFT... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, the vapor which arises at dawn, AND AS THE EARLY DEW THAT PASSETH AWAY, Cf Hosea 6:4, AS THE CHAFF THAT IS DRIVEN WITH THE WHIRLWIND OUT OF THE FLOOR, being carried away from the threshing-floor by every passing breeze, AND AS THE SMOKE OUT OF THE CHIMNE... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet, over against the faithlessness of an apostate people, I AM THE LORD, THY GOD, FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT, since the days when He delivered His people from the house of bondage, AND THOU SHALT KNOW NO GOD BUT ME, there being no deliverer like the true God; FOR THERE IS NO SAVIOR BESIDE ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
I did know thee, with true love and compassion, IN THE WILDERNESS, even during the desert journey, IN THE LAND OF GREAT DROUGHT, where the land and its inhabitants languished with thirst.... [ Continue Reading ]
According to their pasture, so were they filled, their enjoyment of the goodness of God causing them to become proud in their own conceit; THEY WERE FILLED, AND THEIR HEART WAS EXALTED, at the very time when they should have bowed down before the Lord with the greatest feeling of humility; THEREFORE... [ Continue Reading ]
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;... [ Continue Reading ]
I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, which is known for her fierceness, AND WILL REND THE CAUL OF THEIR HEART, the pericardium or membrane enclosing the heart, AND THERE WILL I DEVOUR THEM. LIKE A LION; THE WILD BEAST SHALL TEAR THEM. The punishment of the apostate people is re... [ Continue Reading ]
O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in Me is thine help, literally, "It has destroyed thee, Israel, because [thou art] against Me, against thy Help. " That is the great contrast: on the one side, certain help and deliverance, on the other, destruction which Israel brings upon himself by oppos... [ Continue Reading ]
THE RETRIBUTION COMING... [ Continue Reading ]
I will be thy King, so the Lord's offer still holds good; WHERE IS ANY OTHER THAT MAY SAVE THEE IN ALL THY CITIES? Who else could really deliver them from the power of the Assyrians?. AND THY JUDGES, OF WHOM THOU SAIDST, GIVE ME A KING AND PRINCES? Because the people continued in their rebellious at... [ Continue Reading ]
I gave thee a king in Mine anger, the expression referring, in general, to the kings of Israel, AND TOOK HIM AWAY IN MY WRATH, the constant change of kings being a decided misfortune to the country, while the end of the kingdom was now in sight.... [ Continue Reading ]
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, one does not need to seek the evidence, it is all collected and preserved; HIS SIN IS HID, sealed in a package, for ready reference. This being true, the punishment was bound to follow.... [ Continue Reading ]
The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him, in the most violent pains accompanying the Lord's punishment. HE IS AN UNWISE SON, foolish as a baby detained; FOR HE SHOULD NOT STAY LONG IN THE PLACE OF THE BREAKING FORTH OF CHILDREN, that is, if the birth does not take place at the proper ti... [ Continue Reading ]
I will ransom them from the power of the grave, from the hand of the world of death, of hell; I WILL REDEEM THEM FROM DEATH. O DEATH, I WILL BE THY PLAGUES, a series of pestilences bringing about the death of death; O GRAVE, I WILL BE THY DESTRUCTION. REPENTANCE SHALL BE HID FROM MINE EYES, that is,... [ Continue Reading ]
Though he be fruitful among his brethren, the Hebrew text here containing a play upon the name Ephraim, which means fruitfulness, AN EAST WIND SHALL COME, with its parching heat, THE WIND OF THE LORD, sent by Him in punishment, SHALL COME UP FROM THE WILDERNESS, AND HIS SPRING SHALL BECOME DRY, AND... [ Continue Reading ]
Samaria shall become desolate, suffering its punishment by being made desolate; FOR SHE HATH REBELLED AGAINST HER GOD; THEY, the inhabitants of the capital and of the country, SHALL FALL BY THE SWORD, as the invader proceeds on his campaign of conquest; THEIR INFANTS SHALL BE DASHED IN PIECES, AND T... [ Continue Reading ]