Hosea 7:15
And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms: and they have imagined evil against me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
In Context
Cross References
2 Kings 13:5And the Lord gave Israel a saviour, and they were delivered out of the hand of the king of Syria: and the children of Israel dwelt in their pavilions as yesterday and the day before.
2 Kings 14:25He restored the borders of Israel from the entrance of Emath, unto the sea of the wilderness, according to the word of the Lord the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonas the son of Amathi, the prophet, who was of Geth, which is in Opher.
Psalms 2:1Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?
Psalms 94:12Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law.
Proverbs 3:11My son, reject not the correction of the Lord: and do not faint when thou art chastised by him:
Hosea 13:9Destruction is thy own, 0 Israel: thy help is only in me.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 7:9-16
The Crimes of the People; Infatuation of Ephraim; Ephraim's Obstinate Rebellion; Ephraim's Hypocrisy. ( b. c. 750.) 8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. 10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this. 11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to… Read the whole commentary →