Hosea 12:9

And] RV 'But.' In spite of all this I will not leave you to your evil ways.

Tabernacles] RV 'tents.' Israel had learned nothing since the days in the wilderness. In religion and morality they were still like those who came out of Egypt. Therefore they would have to go back to captivity and begin their discipline anew. Solemn feast] i.e. the Feast of booths (Tabernacles).

10. The moral degradation of the people was not from want of warning. Visions and similitudes] two of the commonest modes of prophetic utterance. We have instances of the first in the vision of Micaiah (1 Kings 22:19), the basket of summer fruit (Αm Hosea 8:1), etc.; of the latter in the simile of the baker in Hosea 7. A definitely acted parable became a common feature of later prophecy, e.g. Ezekiel 4.