Hosea 5:10

were like them that remove the bound Rather, are become like them that remove the landmark. The landmarks were under the protection of religion (Proverbs 22:28; Proverbs 23:10; Deuteronomy 19:14), and to remove them laid the offender under a curse, according to Deuteronomy 27:17. Hosea cites the offence as the greatest conceivable example of revolutionary caprice. Judah, it would seem, was not more fortunate now in its upper classes than Israel (comp. Hosea 6:10-11 Sept., and Isaiah's -these also", viz. the chief men of Jerusalem, Isaiah 28:7).

like water Jehovah's wrath is like fire in its destructiveness, and like a swollen stream in its abundant volume.