Hosea 10:10

Jehovah's rejoinder to this tacit challenge. It is in my desire Rather, When I desire, I will chastise them, and peoples (i. e. hostile armies), &c.

when they shall bind themselves, &c. Rather, when I chastise them (or, when I bind them, or, when they shall be bound) for their two iniquities, viz. for their revolt from -Jehovah their God and David their king" (Hosea 3:5). The rendering -furrows" adopted in A.V. from the Targum has no support in Hebrew usage, and yields no intelligible sense. -Iniquities" is the rendering of the Septuagint and the Vulgate, as well as of Hitzig, Keil, &c., though these scholars prefer the version -bind to", and explain that punishment is viewed as the necessary concomitant of transgression.