Hosea 6:1
Come — The prophet here brings them in, exhorting one another. He hath torn — We now see his hand in all we suffer.... [ Continue Reading ]
Come — The prophet here brings them in, exhorting one another. He hath torn — We now see his hand in all we suffer.... [ Continue Reading ]
After two days — After some short time of suffering, God will shew us his favour, and revive our dead state. Revive us — Though we were as dead men, buried in our miseries, yet our merciful God will quicken us. Live — Flourish in peace, wealth, and joy; in righteousness and safety. In his sight — Th... [ Continue Reading ]
Know — What worship he requires. And the knowledge of God shall be to us a spring of all holy, righteous, sober conversation. Follow on — By a diligent attendance to the word, and works of God, we shall know experimentally, how holy, how good, how faithful God is. His going forth — Before his people... [ Continue Reading ]
What shall I do — What shall I do more to save you from ruin, and save my own honour, truth, and justice?... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore — Because I would do for you whatever might be done. Hewed them — I have severely, and unweariedly reproved, and threatened them. By thy words — As I did by word foretel, so I did effect in due time. Thy judgments — The punishments threatened, which fell upon this people, did so fully answ... [ Continue Reading ]
For — I so hewed and slew them, because they did not what I most of all required; they were full of sacrifices, but either to idols, or else in formality and pride. Mercy — Compassion and charity towards men, this one principal duty of the second table put for all. In this I delight, I have found li... [ Continue Reading ]
The covenant — The law of their God. There — In that very place, the good land which by covenant I gave them: they have broken my covenant.... [ Continue Reading ]
A city — A city full of notorious transgressors, the inhabitants though Levites and priests, work all manner of wickedness. With blood — Murders committed there.... [ Continue Reading ]
The company of priests — The priests by companies lay wait, and rob, and murder.... [ Continue Reading ]
The whoredom — Idolatry. Of Ephraim — Which was brought in by an Ephraimite, by Jeroboam, two hundred years ago, and is there still. Israel is defiled — It hath overspread all Israel.... [ Continue Reading ]
He — But God hath appointed an harvest for thee; thou shalt not as Israel be cut off; a seed of thee shall be sowed, and thou shalt reap the harvest with joy.... [ Continue Reading ]