Hosea 8:8

is swallowed up i. e. is as good as swallowed up. Foreigners have already begun to absorb the precious morsel (cf. Hosea 7:8-9); complete destruction is only a question of time.

now shall they be Rather, now are they become among the nations, &c. Comp. Jeremiah 22:28; Jeremiah 48:38. -The coarse pottery of this country", says Dr Thomson, -is so cheap that even poor people throw it aside in contempt, or dash it to pieces on the slightest occasion" (The Land and the Book, p. 36). -Nations" (as Hosea 8:10).