Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 9:14
Give then — It is an abrupt but pathetic speech of one that shews his trouble for a sinking, undone nation. A miscarrying womb — It is less misery to have none, than to have all our children murdered.
Give then — It is an abrupt but pathetic speech of one that shews his trouble for a sinking, undone nation. A miscarrying womb — It is less misery to have none, than to have all our children murdered.
Verse Hosea 9:14. _GIVE THEM, O LORD: WHAT WILT THOU GIVE?_] There is an uncommon beauty in these words. The prophet, seeing the evils that were likely to fall upon his countrymen, begins to make int...
GIVE THEM A MISCARRYING WOMB - The prophet prays for Israel, and debates with himself what he can ask for, amid this their determined wickedness, and God’s judgments. Since “Ephraim” was “to bring for...
CHAPTER 9:10-11:11 RETROSPECT, ISRAEL'S FAILURE AND RUIN _ 1. Israel once beloved, now fugitive wanderers (Hosea 9:10) _ 2. Their guilt and punishment (Hosea 10:1) 3. Exhortation and rebuke (Hosea...
THE NEMESIS OF AN IMPURE WORSHIP (_cf. Hosea 4:11_). Israel in unspoilt youth had appeared to Yahweh like grapes in the wilderness, but at the very first of the Canaanite shrines which they reached, B...
_ISRAEL'S GLORY FLEW AWAY -- HOSEA 9:11-14_ : The glory of Israel would fly away like a bird. They would no longer be a growing and productive nation. Their women would no longer be able to give birth...
GIVE THEM A MISCARRYING WOMB— As a punishment for having inhumanly exposed their infants to death, by sacrificing them to their false gods; or, for having exposed them to the cruelty of the Assyrians,...
REPROVINGISRAEL FOLLOWED BAAL TEXT: Hosea 9:10-17 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-figs in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-pe...
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. GIVE THEM, O LORD: WHAT WILT THOU GIVE? As if overwhelmed by feeling, he deliberates with God what is most des...
EXILE IS AT HAND This prophecy appears to have been written in a time of rejoicing over a good harvest and vintage. Israel need not rejoice, says the prophet, with the wild joy of the heathen. Their...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 9 HOSEA TELLS ISRAEL THAT GOD WILL PUNISH HER V1 People of Israel, do not be happy. Do not shout for joy like the other nations...
Better universal childlessness than that the off-spring should be exposed to so terrible a fate. Compare this with our Lord’s words: “Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare,” &c....
תֵּן ־לָהֶ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה מַה ־תִּתֵּ֑ן תֵּן ־לָהֶ
4. "THE CORRUPTION THAT IS THROUGH LUST" Hosea 9:10 CF. Hosea 4:11 Those who at the present time are enforcing among us the revival of a paganism-without the pagan conscience-and exalting licentiousn...
“WANDERERS AMONG THE NATIONS” Hosea 9:10-17 At the Exodus the love and thanks of Israel were as delightful to God as grapes in the desert or as the first ripe figs. But they gave themselves up to th...
The judgment was then described in detail. Its first note was of the death of joy. Israel could not find her joy like other peoples. She had gone whoring from God, loving hire on every threshing floor...
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a (p) miscarrying womb and dry breasts. (p) The Prophet seeing the great plagues of God toward Ephraim, prays to God to make them barren, rather than...
CHAPTER IX. _ Children, as they have exposed them to the fury of the Assyrians, (Calmet) or to their idols. (Drusius) --- The prophet appears to demand vengeance through zeal; but it is only a predic...
There is the same strain in this part of the Prophet's discourse as in the former: and the whole sum and substance of the sermon, is the Lord's grace and Israel's unworthiness. But I hope the Reader 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...
XII. HOSEA 9:7 (NASB) THE DAYS OF PUNISHMENT HAVE COME, THE DAYS OF RETRIBUTION HAVE COME; LET ISRAEL KNOW [THIS]! THE PROPHET IS A FOOL, THE INSPIRED MAN IS DEMENTED, BECAUSE OF THE GROSSNESS OF YOUR...
Interpreters translate these words in a different way: “Give them what thou art about to give,” then they repeats “Give them;” but, as I think, they do not comprehend the design of the Prophet, and ar...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, AND 11. In CHAPTER 9 we have here that touching mixture of affection and judgment which we find again and again in this prophet. Ephraim should not rem...
GIVE THEM, O LORD: WHAT WILT THOU GIVE THEM?.... The prophet foreseeing the butchery and destruction of their children, his heart ached for them; and, to show his tender affection for this people, was...
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Ver. 14. Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give?] This question implieth abundance of affection in the prophet, p...
_Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give?_ The prophet here speaks as one greatly agitated, and at a loss what to say upon what he had just heard; but at last concludes with beseeching God rather to le...
Give them, O Lord; what wilt Thou give? the question interrupting the flow of thought showing the deep indignation of the prophet over the willful corruption of His people. GIVE THEM A MISCARRYING WOM...
THE CORRUPTION OF ISRAEL AND ITS CONSEQUENCES...
MISCARRYING: _ Heb._ that casteth the fruit...
11-17. God departs from a people, or from a person, when he withdraws his goodness and mercy from them; and when the Lord is departed, what can the creature do? Even though, for the present, good thi...
GIVE THEM, O LORD; it is an abrupt but very pathetical speech of one that shows his trouble for the state of a sinking, undone nation, it is an intercession for them. WHAT WILT THOU GIVE? as if he sho...
Hosea 9:14 Give H5414 (H8798) give H5414 (H8799) Give H5414 (H8798) miscarrying H7921 (H8688) womb...
EPHRAIM'S FUTURE IS BLEAK (HOSEA 9:11). As a result of their sinfulness Ephraim's future is depicted as being very bleak. Their wealth and prosperity (their ‘glory' - compare Isaiah 17:3) will fly awa...
‘Give them, O YHWH - What will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.' Moved by what he sees before him at the feast Hosea calls on YHWH to act against the people in judgment. As he p...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Israel's coming distress because of sin. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Joy is a forbidden fruit to those who have broken covenant with God, until they return...
Hosea 9:1. _Rejoice not, oh Israel,_ with the shouts of harvest, and the songs of the vintage, as all heathen nations have done, and have ascribed their harvests to their idols; for God was about to d...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 9:14 A MISCARRYING WOMB would be the opposite of the fruitfulness the people sought in Baal worship. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 9:11. THEIR GLORY] Children the glory of parents, sterility a reproach. EPH.]= fruitfulness (Genesis 41:52, marg), which characteristic should cease; licentious worship would di...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 9:1 Contain a warning against security arising from temporary prosperity. HOSEA 9:1 REJOICE NOT, O ISRAEL, FOR JOY, AS OTHER PEOPLE. The occasion on which the prophet penned this s...
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone a whoring from your God, you have loved a reward upon every cornfloor. The floor in the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wi...
1 Corinthians 7:26; Hosea 9:13; Hosea 9:16; Job 21:10; Luke 21:23;...