Hosea 7:5

A day of our king! Princes have defiled themselves [with] the poison of wine, || He has drawn out his hand with scorners.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

In Context

4All of them [are] adulterers, || Like a burning oven of a baker, || He ceases from stirring up after kneading the dough, until its leavening.

6For they have drawn near, || Their heart [is] as an oven || In their lying in wait—their baker sleeps all night, || Morning! He is burning as a flaming fire.

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Cross References

1 Kings 13:4And it comes to pass, at the king’s hearing the word of the man of God that he calls against the altar in Beth-El, that Jeroboam puts forth his hand from off the altar, saying, “Catch him”; and his hand that he has put forth against him is dried up, and he is not able to bring it back to himself,

Psalms 69:12Those sitting at the gate meditate concerning me, || And those drinking strong drink, || Play on instruments.

Proverbs 20:1Wine [is] a scorner—strong drink [is] noisy, || And any going astray in it is not wise.

Isaiah 5:11Woe [to] those rising early in the morning, || They pursue strong drink! Lingering in twilight, wine inflames them!

Isaiah 28:1Woe [to] the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim. And the fading flower of the beauty of his glory, || That [is] on the head of the fat valley of the broken down of wine.

Daniel 5:1Belshazzar the king has made a great feast to one thousand of his great men, and before the one thousand he is drinking wine;

Matthew Henry on Hosea 7:2-8

Charge Drawn up against Israel; The Crimes of the Princes. ( b. c. 750.) 1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. 2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 4 They are… Read the whole commentary →

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