The Long-merited Retribution
The enemy is coming immediately to destroy their temples and palaces and desolate the land, and as a punishment for their idolatry and disloyalty to God. In vain will they appeal to Jehovah.
CHAPTER VIII _This chapter begins with threatening some hostile invasion in_ _short and broken sentences, full of rapidity, and expressive of_ _sudden danger and alarm: "The trumpet to thy mouth; h...
THE TRUMPET TO THY MOUTH! - So God bids the prophet Isaiah, “Cry aloud, spare not, llft up thy voice like a trumpet” Isaiah 58:1. The prophets, as watchmen, were set by God to give notice of His comin...
CHAPTER 8:1-9:9 The Apostasy is Followed by Judgment _ 1. The judgment announced (Hosea 8:1) _ 2. The apostasy which resulted in judgment (Hosea 8:8) 3. Warning against self-security (Hosea 9:1)...
HOSEA 7:8 TO HOSEA 8:3. POLITICAL DECAY THE OUTWARD SIGN OF ISRAEL'S MORAL DECAY. The attempts to cure national ills and secure safety by foreign aid, instead of by turning to Yahweh, are foredoomed t...
SET THE TRUMPET, &C. See Hosea 5:8. Compare Isaiah 58:1. HE SHALL COME. Supply the _Ellipsis_ (App-6) thus: "[It (i.e. the threatened judgment)] is coming", &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28...
In great emotion (which reflects itself in the short clauses) the prophet announces the imminent invasion of N. Israel, and its true causes idolatry and schism 1. _Set the trumpet to thy mouth_ Lit.,...
_ISRAEL BROKE GOD'S COVENANT -- HOSEA 8:1-4:_ Hosea eight begins with God, Israel and the Assyrians. Israel had broken her covenant with God and ignored His teaching. Now it was time to sound the warn...
SET THE TRUMPET TO THY MOUTH— _Let the trumpet in thy mouth sound against the house of Judah._ Houbigant. Hosea in this and the three following verses prophesies against Judah. Those who follow our in...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDETHE LORD'S LAMENT TEXT: Hosea 8:1-7 1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle he cometh against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespasse...
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. In Judah is said to multiply fenced...
8:1 trumpet (a-3) Or 'horn,' as ch. 5.8....
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 8 GOD IS ANGRY WITH ISRAEL BECAUSE SHE PRAYS TO *IDOLS V1 Put a *trumpet to your lips and warn people! An *eagle is over the *L...
EAGLE. — The image of swiftness (Jeremiah 4:13; Jeremiah 48:40). So Assyria shall come swooping down on Samaria, to which Hosea, though with some irony, gives the name “House of Jehovah,” recognising...
אֶל ־חִכְּךָ֣ שֹׁפָ֔ר כַּ † נֶּ֖שֶׁר עַל...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
1. THE CONFUSION OF THE NATION Hosea 7:8; Hosea 8:1 Hosea begins by summing up the public aspect of Israel in two epigrams, short but of marvelous adequacy:-Hosea 7:8 "Ephraim-among the nations he...
REAPING THE WHIRLWIND Hosea 8:1-14 A conqueror was at hand who should subdue and punish the whole nation for taking its own course, irrespective of God, Hosea 8:4-8; for seeking foreign alliances whi...
From this statement of the case the prophet turned to the pronouncement of judgment. This he did by adopting the figure of the trumpet lifted to the mouth, on which five blasts were sounded, in each o...
[Set] the trumpet to thy (a) mouth. [He shall come] as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. (a) God encourages the Prophe...
Eagle. It makes a noise like a trumpet. (Pliny, [Natural History?] x. 3.) --- Osee denounces judgments on the house of Israel, which, though schismatical, was not entirely abandoned by the Lord. Salma...
CONTENTS We have here another Sermon of the Prophet, or perhaps it is but a continuation of the former, for the subject is the same. The Lord expostulates with his people, and threatens to correct th...
The Chapter opens with a command to someone, and it should seem most likely to be to the Prophet, to cry aloud, in a way of reproof and expostulation. The expression is not unlike that command to Isai...
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...
XI. HOSEA 8:7 (NASB) FOR THEY SOW THE WIND, AND THEY REAP THE WHIRLWIND......
Interpreters nearly all agree in this, that the Prophet threatens not the kingdom of Israel, but the kingdom of Judah, at the beginning of this chapter, because he names the house of God, which they t...
In chapter 8 it is especially the daring and continual violation of the law of their God, with which Israel is openly reproached, and which would bring judgment, with eagle swiftness, upon them. Obser...
[SET] THE TRUMPET TO THY MOUTH,.... Or, "the trumpet to the roof of thy mouth" t; a concise expression denoting haste, and the vehemence of the passions speaking; they are either the words of the Lord...
Hosea 8:1 [Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. [He shall come] as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. Ver. 1. _Set the trumpe...
_Set the trumpet to thy mouth_ The Vulgate renders it, _In guttere tuo sit tuba;_ that is, _Let thy throat_, or mouth, _sound like a trumpet._ God speaks in these words, says Grotius, to the prophet,...
THE JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
Set the trumpet to thy mouth, so the Lord calls out to the prophet in bidding him give a warning concerning the approach of the judgment. HE SHALL COME AS AN EAGLE AGAINST THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, the e...
THY MOUTH: _ Heb._ the roof of thy mouth...
1-4 When Israel was hard pressed, they would claim protection from God, but this would be disregarded. What stead will it stand in to say, My God, I know thee, if we cannot say, My God, I love thee, s...
HOSEA CHAPTER 8 Destruction is threatened both to Israel and Judah for their impiety and idolatry. The Lord here commands the prophet to publish, as by sound of trumpet, that which God will bring upon...
Hosea 8:1 trumpet H7782 mouth H2441 eagle H5404 house H1004 LORD H3068 transgressed H5674 (H8804) covenant H1285 rebelled...
WHEN THE ENEMY DESCEND LIKE AN EAGLE BECAUSE THEY HAVE BROKEN THE COVENANT AND CAST OFF WHAT IS GOOD, ISRAEL WILL CRY IN VAIN, ‘”O GOD OF ISRAEL WE KNOW YOU” (HOSEA 8:1). The present hopelessness of I...
‘The ram's horn to your mouth! Like an eagle he comes against the house of YHWH, Because they have transgressed my covenant, And trespassed against my law. The opening lines are brief and to the p...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Sins denounced and captivity foretold. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who sow to the flesh must reap corruption. All the hopes of sinners are cheats, and...
Hosea 8:1. _Set the trumpet to thy mouth._ Give alarm, for the king of Assyria is coming; he is stretching his wings like an eagle to take the prey. Isaiah uses the same figure, in Isaiah 58:1. _Again...
_Set thy trumpet to thy mouth._ THE GOSPEL TRUMPET 1. By sounding the Gospel trumpet the mind of God can alone be communicated to man. The voice of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost must be heard from the...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 8:1 The people of Israel may claim to know and love the Lord, but their deeds prove otherwise. ⇐ ⇔
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 8:1.] Abruptness indicating sudden judgment. EAGLE] Swift and alarming (Deuteronomy 28:49). HE] Shalmanezer, king of Assyria. HOUSE] Not the temple, nor land, but Israel viewed...
EXPOSITION This chapter deals with the punishment of apostasy. Once more the sins of the northern kingdom are enumerated and its approaching fall predicted. There is a close connection between the ver...
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law (Hsa Hosea 8:1). So God again is giving...
1 Corinthians 15:52; 2 Kings 18:27; Amos 3:6; Amos 8:3; Amos 9:1;...
Set the trumpet — The Lord here commands the prophet to publish, as by sound of trumpet, that which God will bring upon apostate Israel. He — The king of Assyria. As an eagle — Swift, hungry, surmount...