Hosea 4:16

For Yisroel slideth back + 4:16 i.e., is stubborn, rebellious, unmanageable 1 like a backsliding parah (stubborn, rebellious cow); 1 can Hashem now feed them 1 like a lamb in a wide field? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

In Context

15Though thou, Yisroel, play the zonah, 1 yet let not Yehudah become guilty; 1 and come not ye unto Gilgal, 1 neither go ye up to Beit-Aven (House of Iniquity), + 4:15 pejorative name for Bethel 1 nor swear, Chai Hashem (As the L-rd lives). 1

17Ephrayim + 4:17 i.e., the Northern Kingdom, Israel is joined to atzabim (idols); 1 leave him alone. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:33And I will scatter you among the Goyim, and will draw out a cherev after you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities ruin.

Isaiah 5:17Then shall the kevasim feed as upon their pasture, 1 and the gerim (sojourners) will eat in the ruins of the rich. 1

Isaiah 22:18He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a kadoor (ball) into a wide country; there shalt thou die, and there the merkevot (chariots) of thy kavod shall be the disgrace of the Bais Adoneicha.

Jeremiah 3:8And I saw, when for all the causes whereby meshuvah Yisroel (backsliding Yisroel) committed adultery, I had put her away, and given her a sefer keritut (bill of divorce); yet her treacherous achot Yehudah feared not, but went and played the zonah also.

Jeremiah 5:6Therefore an aryeh (lion) out of the forest shall slay them, 1 and a ze'ev (wolf) of the deserts shall destroy them, 1 a namer (leopard) shall prowl near their towns; 1 every one that ventureth out from there shall be torn to pieces; 1 because their peysha'im (rebellions) are many, 1 and their meshuvot (backslidings) are increased. 1

Jeremiah 8:5Why then does HaAm Hazeh turn away 1 in perpetual meshuvah (backsliding)? 1 They hold fast to deceit, 1 refusing to make teshuvah. 1

Matthew Henry on Hosea 4:13-19

The Sins of the Priests and the People; Warning to Judah. ( b. c. 758.) 12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 14 I will not punish… Read the whole commentary →

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