Hosea 7:16
They return, but not to Most High; 1 they are like a faulty keshet; 1 their sarim (princes) shall fall by the cherev 1 for the insolence of their leshon; 1 this shall be their derision in Eretz Mitzrayim.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
15Though I have trained and strengthened their zero'ot (arms), 1 yet do they plot rah against Me. 1
Cross References
Psalms 12:5Who have said, With leshoneinu (our tongue) will we prevail; 1 our lips are our own: who is Adon over us? 1
Psalms 57:4He shall send from Shomayim, 1 and save me from the disgrace of him that would swallow me up. 1 Selah 1 Elohim shall send forth His chesed (lovingkindness) and His emes (truth). 1
Psalms 78:37For their lev was not right with Him, 1 neither were they faithful in His Brit. 1
Isaiah 3:8For Yerushalayim is ruined, 1 and Yehudah fallen; 1 because their leshon and their deeds are against Hashem, 1 to provoke the eyes of His kavod. 1
Jeremiah 18:18Then said they, Come and let us devise plans against Yirmeyah; for the torah shall not perish from the kohen, nor etzah from the chacham, nor the davar from the navi. Come, and let us attack him with the lashon, and let us not give heed to any of his devarim. 1
Ezekiel 23:32Thus saith Adonoi Hashem: 1 Thou shalt drink of thy achotʼs kos 1 deep and wide; 1 thou shalt be laughed to scorn and held in derision; 1 it containeth so much, filled to the brim. 1
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 →