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AND THEY HAVE NOT CRIED UNTO HIM WITH THEIR HEART, WHEN THEY HOWLED
UPON THEIR BEDS - Or, in the present time, “they cry not unto Me
when they howl.” They did “cry,” and, it may be, they
“cried” even...
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CHAPTER 7
The Moral Depravity of Israel
_ 1. Their moral depravity (Hosea 7:1) _
2. Mingling with heathen nations (Hosea 7:8)
Hosea 7:1. All the gracious efforts of the Lord to heal Israel
resulted...
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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...
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THEY HAVE NOT CRIED. Compare Job 35:9; Job 35:10; Psalms 78:36;
Jeremiah 3:10;...
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_with their heart, when they howled_ Rather, IN THEIR HEART, BUT THEY
HOWL. The prophet contrasts the quiet communion of the heart with
Jehovah and the wild-beastlike -howling" of the impenitent Israe...
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_ISRAEL REBELLED MORE AND MORE -- HOSEA 7:14-16:_ The rebellion of
Israel against God has brought on devastation. God was their rightful
king and ruler. He had always ruled fairly and with their good...
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DISCOURSE: 1161
THE PRAYERS OF UNREGENERATE MEN CONSIDERED
Hosea 7:14. _They have not cried unto me with their heart, when they
howled upon their beds_.
IT is not without reason that prayer has been...
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AND THEY HAVE NOT CRIED UNTO ME, &C.— _Nor do they cry unto me from
their heart: They howl on their beds, for the want of corn and wine.
They are enraged, and take counsel_ or _rebel against me._ Houb...
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ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDELOVE OF SIN
TEXT: Hosea 7:8-16
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Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not
turned.
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Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea...
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And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled
upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they
rebel against me. AND THEY HAVE NOT CRIED UNTO ME WITH THEIR H...
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CORRUPTION OF THE COURT
In this chapter the tone again becomes despondent. How can Israel be
saved when her iniquity is so deep, so glaring, so obstinate? Samaria
is especially instanced as the centr...
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HOWLED.. BEDS] Their prayers do not proceed from any reverential fear
of God. They are like the howling of an animal from pain. They cry out
because they are in trouble, but their prayers are for mate...
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THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING
HOSEA
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 7
V1 I want to heal my people Israel!
Then people will know that *Ephraim has *sinned....
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CRIED... HOWLED — God discriminates between a heart-cry to Him, and
a howl of despair, resembling the yell of a wild beast. A howl upon
their bed is not a sob of true repentance.
THEY ASSEMBLE THEMSEL...
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וְ לֹֽא ־זָעֲק֤וּ אֵלַי֙ בְּ לִבָּ֔ם
כִּ֥י
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THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL
Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
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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...
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INIQUITY UNCOVERED
Hosea 7:1-16
The last clause of the previous chapter belongs to this. God desired
to turn aside the captivity of His people and to heal Israel, but His
pleading was unavailing beca...
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The prophet then declared more particularly the true state of affairs.
The divine desire to heal was frustrated by the pollution and the
people's persistent ignoring of God. Hosea graphically describe...
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And they have not cried unto me with their heart, (l) when they howled
upon their beds: (m) they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and]
they rebel against me.
(l) When they were in affliction,...
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_Thought: "ruminated." (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "assembled, or been
afraid." Septuagint, "they were cut," (Calmet) in honour of idols,
hoping to avert the famine. (St. Cyril)_...
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We have here a continuation of the same subject, namely, the Lord's
remonstrance with Israel. But I pray the Reader to observe, how many
sweet and gracious expressions of our God are mingled with his...
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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...
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IX. HOSEA 7:8-9 (NASB) EPHRAIM MIXES HIMSELF WITH THE NATIONS; EPHRAIM
HAS BECOME A CAKE NOT TURNED.
9 STRANGERS DEVOUR HIS STRENGTH, YET HE DOES NOT KNOW [IT]; GRAY HAIRS
ALSO ARE SPRINKLED ON HIM,...
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The Prophet here again reproves the Israelites for having not
repented, after having been so often admonished; for, as it was said
yesterday, all the chastisements which God by his own hand inflicts o...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7.
Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he
entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this
resource, beca...
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AND THEY HAVE NOT CRIED UNTO ME WITH THEIR HEART,.... In their
distress, indeed, they cried unto the Lord, and said they repented of
their sins, and promised reformation, and made a show of worshippin...
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And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled
upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and]
they rebel against me.
Ver. 14. _And they have not cried unto me...
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Hos. 7:14. "And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when
they howled upon their beds." In their calamities which they suffered,
they are compared to sick and wounded men, as chap. Hosea 5:13...
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_Wo unto them_, &c. These are words both of menace and lamentation.
The prophet at once foretels and bewails their miseries. _For they
have fled from me_ As if it had not been enough that they at firs...
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And they have not cried unto Me with their heart, for whatever praying
they did was performed in hypocrisy, WHEN THEY HOWLED UPON THEIR BEDS,
with cries of sleepless anguish, after the usual manner of...
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HYPOCRISY REBUKED...
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8-16 Israel was as a cake not turned, half burnt and half dough, none
of it fit for use; a mixture of idolatry and of the worship of
Jehovah. There were tokens of approaching ruin, as grey hairs are...
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AND THEY, immersed in these troubles. taken in the net, have not cried
unto me; either they cried to their idols, not to God, see HOSEA 7:7;
or else their tongues made noise, their hearts were silent,...
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Hosea 7:14 out H2199 (H8804) heart H3820 wailed H3213 (H8686) beds
H4904 assemble H1481 (H8709) grain...
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‘And they have not cried to me with their heart,
But they howl on their beds,
They assemble themselves for grain and new wine,
They rebel against me.'
For rather than calling on YHWH from their hea...
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EPHRAIM (ISRAEL) ARE PICTURED AS A HAPLESS DOVE FLUTTERING BETWEEN
EGYPT AND ASSYRIA AS THEY ENDEAVOUR TO AVOID YHWH'S NET (HOSEA 7:11).
Ephraim are now depicted as being willing to do anything rather...
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Hosea 7:14
I. The grand motive which should influence the sinner in turning to
God is love to the kind and gracious Father, who has so long borne
with his waywardness; and a sincere desire to promote...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's response to Israel's, cry, continued. Israel's sad
state.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: If sinful souls are not healed and helped, but perish in
their sin and misery, they cannot...
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Hosea 7:1. _When I would have healed Israel,_ by Jehu's zeal for the
Lord, then the idolatrous priests, like troops of robbers, gathered
round him with lies in their mouth, and persuaded him to retain...
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_They have not cried unto Me with their heart, when they howled upon
their beds._
DEATH-BED REPENTANCE
When called to encounter dangers, every possible precaution should be
taken beforehand. Seasons...
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:4 Hosea compares Israel to an oven (vv. Hosea
7:4), a half-baked cake (vv. Hosea 7:8), a silly dove (vv....
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:14 GASH THEMSELVES. Probably to call on Baal
(see 1 Kings 18:28)....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
HOSEA 7:14. CRIED] in anguish, not in penitence. HOWLED] in deep
affliction and despair. ASSEMBLE] Crowd together in idol temple to
deprecate famine and depart from God. REBEL] Lit....
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EXPOSITION
This chapter may be divided into three sections. In the first section,
including Hosea 7:1, the prophet reproves with much but deserved
severity the depraved morals of king and princes. In...
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The Lord continues His response to them.
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was
discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood;
and the thief comes in...
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Amos 2:8; Amos 8:3; Exodus 32:6; Hosea 3:1; Isaiah 29:13;...
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They assembled — In the houses of their idols....