Hosea 9:7

Hosea 9:7

5 What will you do in the appointed day,
And in the day of the feast of the Lord?

6 For indeed they are gone because of destruction.
Egypt shall gather them up;
Memphis shall bury them.
^aNettles shall possess their valuables of silver;
Thorns shall be in their tents.

7 The ^adays of punishment have come;
The days of recompense have come.
Israel knows!
The prophet is a ^bfool,
^cThe spiritual man is insane,
Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.

8 The ^awatchman of Ephraim is with my God;
But the prophet is a¹ fowler’s snare in all his ways—
Enmity in the house of his God.

9 ^aThey are deeply corrupted,
As in the days of ^bGibeah.
He will remember their iniquity;
He will punish their sins.

10 “I found Israel
Like grapes in the ^awilderness;
I saw your fathers
As the ^bfirstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.
But they went to ^cBaal Peor,
And¹ separated themselves to that shame;
^dThey became an abomination like the thing they loved.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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visitation—vengeance: punishment (Isaiah 10:3).

Israel shall know it—to her cost experimentally (Isaiah 9:9).

the prophet is a fool—The false prophet who foretold prosperity to the nation shall be convicted of folly by the event.

the spiritual man—the man pretending to inspiration (Lamentations 2:14; Ezekiel 13:3; Micah 3:11; Zephaniah 3:4).

for the multitude of thine iniquity, etc.—Connect these words with, "the days of visitation . . . are come"; "the prophet . . . is mad," being parenthetical.

the great hatred—or, "the great provocation" [HENDERSON]; or, "(thy) great apostasy" [MAURER]. English Version means Israel's "hatred" of God's prophets and the law.

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Hosea 9:7:**

Job 21:19
Isaiah 9:9
Isaiah 10:3
Hosea 9:8
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