Reader, I beg of you to observe the Lord's grace still to Israel. How tenderly doth the Lord mourn over his captives, when beholding them void of ordinances. What will ye do, saith the Lord? If there were no other expressions than these of the kind, I cannot but think that these are enough to prove, that the whole of what is said in judgment, is all with an eye to mercy! Egypt, and Memphis, are here spoken of as the cities of desolation to Israel.
Verse Hosea 9:5. _WHAT WILL YE DO IN THE SOLEMN DAY_] When ye shall be despoiled of every thing by the Assyrians; for the Israelites who remained in the land after its subjection to the Assyrians did...
WHAT WILL YE DO IN THE SOLEMN DAY? - Man is content to remain far from God, so that God do not show him, that He has withdrawn Himself from him. Man would fain have the power of drawing near to God in...
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)...
THE JOYLESS DISCIPLINE OF EXILE. The delirious joy of the popular nature-religion shall soon be exchanged for the sorrows of exile. In her own land Israel had treacherously ascribed to the Baalim the...
A vivid picture of the bitterness of the calamity in prospect. It does but equal the Gibeah-like wickedness of Israel....
_What will ye do_, &c. The festivals, which were kept up in N. Israel, even after the schism, were seasons of popular merry-making (see Hosea 2:11). But now as each -feast of Jehovah" comes round in t...
_ISRAEL FACED CERTAIN DESTRUCTION -- HOSEA 9:1-6:_ Israel was headed for a fall. They had been unfaithful to God by behaving like spiritual prostitutes. They enjoyed the blessings they had received fr...
WHAT WILL YE DO IN THE SOLEMN DAY— "When the days of your feast shall come, and you shall find yourselves far from your own country, without temple, without prophets, without priests, without sacrific...
LOVE REBUKING Hosea 9:1, Hosea 13:16 REPROVINGISRAEL FORSOOK GOD TEXT: Hosea 9:1-9 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, departing from thy God; thou...
What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? WHAT WILL YE DO IN THE SOLEMN DAY, AND IN THE DAY OF THE FEAST OF THE LORD? (.)...
EXILE IS AT HAND This prophecy appears to have been written in a time of rejoicing over a good harvest and vintage. Israel need not rejoice, says the prophet, with the wild joy of the heathen. Their...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 9 HOSEA TELLS ISRAEL THAT GOD WILL PUNISH HER V1 People of Israel, do not be happy. Do not shout for joy like the other nations...
See Note on Hosea 2:11....
מַֽה ־תַּעֲשׂ֖וּ לְ יֹ֣ום מֹועֵ֑ד וּ לְ
3. THE EFFECTS OF EXILE Hosea 9:1 Hosea now turns to describe the effects of exile upon the social and religious habits of the people. It must break up at once the joy and the sacredness of their liv...
“THE DAYS OF RECOMPENSE ARE COME” Hosea 9:1-9 The subject of this chapter is the bitterness of the captivity which was awaiting Israel as the result of their unfaithfulness. Their exile would put an...
The judgment was then described in detail. Its first note was of the death of joy. Israel could not find her joy like other peoples. She had gone whoring from God, loving hire on every threshing floor...
What will ye do (f) in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? (f) When the Lord will take away all the occasions of serving him, which will be the most grievous part of your captivi...
_Lord, when he shall punish you, Isaias xxxiv. 6. (Haydock) --- Israel did not go to the temple, but they kept the festivals and banquets in their own manner, the privation of which they would feel._...
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...
XII. HOSEA 9:7 (NASB) THE DAYS OF PUNISHMENT HAVE COME, THE DAYS OF RETRIBUTION HAVE COME; LET ISRAEL KNOW [THIS]! THE PROPHET IS A FOOL, THE INSPIRED MAN IS DEMENTED, BECAUSE OF THE GROSSNESS OF YOUR...
The Prophet here alludes again to their exile, and shows how deplorable the condition of the people would be, when deprived of all their sacrifices. It is indeed true that the Israelites, when they ch...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, AND 11. In CHAPTER 9 we have here that touching mixture of affection and judgment which we find again and again in this prophet. Ephraim should not rem...
WHAT WILL YE DO IN THE SOLEMN DAY, AND IN THE DAY OF THE FEAST OF THE LORD?] Since their sacrifices now were so disagreeable and displeasing to the Lord, and so unavailable to themselves, what would t...
What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? Ver. 5. _What will ye do in the solemn day, &c._] _q.d._ How will ye do to laugh and leap then, as ye do now? Hosea 9:1. Ho...
_What will ye do in the solemn day_ What will you do in your captivity, when any of your solemn or festival days come? When you shall find yourselves far from your own country, without temple, without...
What will ye do in the solemn day and in the day of the feast of the Lord? Since the Temple and its cult would be missing in the land of their exile, festal days with their solemn joy would not be pos...
WARNING AGAINST FALSE SECURITY...
1-6 Israel gave rewards to their idols, in the offerings presented to them. It is common for those who are niggardly in religion, to be prodigal upon their lusts. Those are reckoned as idolaters, who...
Think with yourselves what you are likely to do then: on those days you were wont to cease from your labours, to offer sacrifices to God, (as you thought and said,) to feast with one another, all was...
Hosea 9:5 do H6213 (H8799) appointed H4150 day H3117 day H3117 feast H2282 LORD H3068 what -...
‘What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, And in the day of the feast of YHWH?' As there would be no offerings and sacrifices, what would they do on the day of solemn assembly, when, had they...
ISRAEL MUST NOT REJOICE AT THEIR HARVEST FEAST BECAUSE EVERYTHING WILL SHORTLY BE TAKEN FROM THEM WHEN THEY ARE EXILED TO EGYPT/ASSYRIA BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY HAVE BECOME AND BECAUSE OF HOW THEY HAVE TR...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response, continued. Israel's coming distress because of sin. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Joy is a forbidden fruit to those who have broken covenant with God, until they return...
Hosea 9:1. _Rejoice not, oh Israel,_ with the shouts of harvest, and the songs of the vintage, as all heathen nations have done, and have ascribed their harvests to their idols; for God was about to d...
_What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?_ FEASTING AFTER UNACCEPTED SACRIFICE Calvin thinks the allusion is to the time of exile, when the people would be deprive...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 9:1 God will punish Israel by sending her people away from the land, to a place where they will not be able to make offerings to the Lord. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 9:5. SOLEMN DAY] God “singles out the great festivals which commemorated his great doings for his people as though they had no more share in these mercies.” Sad to be deprived...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 9:1 Contain a warning against security arising from temporary prosperity. HOSEA 9:1 REJOICE NOT, O ISRAEL, FOR JOY, AS OTHER PEOPLE. The occasion on which the prophet penned this s...
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone a whoring from your God, you have loved a reward upon every cornfloor. The floor in the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wi...
Hosea 2:11; Isaiah 10:3; Jeremiah 5:31; Joel 1:13...
What will ye do — You will not then be suffered to observe any of them....