Hosea 7:7

Hosea 7:7

5 In the day of our king
Princes have made him sick,¹ inflamed with ^awine;
He stretched out his hand with scoffers.

6 They prepare their heart like an oven,
While they lie in wait;
¹Their baker sleeps all night;
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

7 They are all hot, like an oven,
And have devoured their judges;
All their kings have fallen.
^aNone among them calls upon Me.

8 “Ephraim ^ahas mixed himself among the peoples;
Ephraim is a cake unturned.

9 ^aAliens have devoured his strength,
But he does not know it;
Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him,
Yet he does not know it.

10 And the ^apride of Israel testifies to his face,
But ^bthey do not return to the Lord their God,
Nor seek Him for all this.

Futile Reliance on the Nations

11 “Ephraim^a also is like a silly dove, without¹ sense—
^bThey call to Egypt,
They go to ^cAssyria.

12 Wherever they go, I will ^aspread My net on them;
I will bring them down like birds of the air;
I will chastise them
^bAccording to what their congregation has heard.

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Devoured - As a fire destroys, so have these conspirators, destroyed their rulers. Their kings - All that have been since Jeroboam the second's reign, to the delivery of this prophecy, namely, Zechariah, Shallum, Pekahiah, Pekah, fell by the conspiracy of such hot princes. That telleth - Not one of all these either feared, trusted, or worshipped God.

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