Hosea 7:11

Hosea 7:11

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.

13 “Woe to them, for they have fled from Me!
Destruction to them,
Because they have transgressed against Me!
Though ^aI redeemed them,
Yet they have spoken lies against Me.

14 ^aThey did not cry out to Me with their heart
When they wailed upon their beds.
“They¹ assemble together for grain and new ^bwine,
¹They rebel against Me;

15 Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms,
Yet they devise evil against Me;

16 They return, but not¹ to the Most High;
^aThey are like a treacherous bow.
Their princes shall fall by the sword
For the ^bcursings of their tongue.
This shall be their derision ^cin the land of Egypt.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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like a silly dove—a bird proverbial for simplicity: easily deceived.

without heart—that is, understanding.

call to Egypt—Israel lying between the two great rival empires Egypt and Assyria, sought each by turns to help her against the other. As this prophecy was written in the reign of Hoshea, the allusion is probably to the alliance with So or Sabacho II (of which a record has been found on the clay cylindrical seals in Koyunjik), which ended in the overthrow of Hoshea and the deportation of Israel (II Kings 17:3-6). As the dove betrays its foolishness by fleeing in alarm from its nest only to fall into the net of the fowler, so Israel, though warned that foreign alliances would be their ruin, rushed into them.

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