Hosea 8:1
“To your mouth—a horn, || As an eagle against the house of YHWH, || Because they transgressed My covenant, || And against My law they have rebelled.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
2To Me they cry, My God, we—Israel—have known You.
Cross References
2 Kings 18:27And the chief of the butlers says to them, “For your lord, and to you, has my lord sent me to speak these words? Is it not for the men—those sitting on the wall—to eat their own dung and to drink their own water, with you?”
Isaiah 24:5And the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, || Because they have transgressed laws, || They have changed a statute, || They have made void a perpetual covenant.
Jeremiah 4:5Declare in Judah, and sound in Jerusalem, and say: “Blow a horn in the land, || Call, Fill up together, || And say, Assemble yourselves and let us go into the fortified cities.
Jeremiah 6:1“Strengthen yourselves, sons of Benjamin, || From the midst of Jerusalem, || And blow a horn in Tekoa, || And lift up a flame over Beth-Haccerem, || For evil has been seen from the north, || And great destruction.
Jeremiah 48:40For thus said YHWH: “Behold, he flees as an eagle, || And has spread his wings to Moab.
Ezekiel 7:14They have blown with a horn to prepare the whole, || And none is going to battle, || For My wrath [is] to all its multitude.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 8:1
This chapter, as that before, divides itself into the sins and punishments of Israel; every verse almost declares both, and all to bring them to repentance. When they saw the malignant nature of their sin, in the descriptions of that, they could not but be convinced now much it was their duty to repent of what was so bad in itself; and when they saw the mischievous consequences of their sin, in the predictions of them, they could not but see how much it was their interest to repent for the preventing of them. I.… Read the whole commentary →