Hosea 8:8

Yisroel is swallowed up; 1 now shall they be among the Goyim 1 like a worthless keli (vessel). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

In Context

7For they have sown the wind, 1 and they shall reap the whirlwind; 1 the stalk [of standing grain] hath no tzemach (shoot); 1 it shall yield no kemach (flour); 1 and even if it yielded it, zarim would devour it. 1

9For they are gone up to Assyria, 1 a pere (wild donkey) off by itself alone; 1 Ephrayim hath sold herself to ahavim (lovers). 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:25Hashem shall cause thee to be defeated before thine enemies; thou shalt go out derech echad against them, and flee shivah derakhim before them; and shalt be an object of horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth.

2 Kings 17:1In the twelfth year of Achaz Melech Yehudah began Hoshea Ben Elah to reign as melech in Shomron over Yisroel nine shanim.

Isaiah 30:14And whose collapse is as the breaking of the clay jar of yotzerim (pottery makers) 1 that is broken in pieces; it shall not be spared; 1 so that there shall not be found among its fragments a shard 1 to take eish from the fire, 1 or to take mayim therewith out of the cistern. 1

Jeremiah 48:38There shall be lamentation generally upon all the gagot (roofs) of Moav, and in the streets thereof; for I have broken Moav like a keli (vessel) wherein is no chefets (pleasure) saith Hashem.

Jeremiah 51:34Nevukhadretzar Melech Bavel hath devoured me, 1 he hath crushed me, 1 he hath made me an empty vessel, 1 he hath swallowed me up like Tannin (Monster), 1 he hath filled his belly with delicacies of me, 1 he hath vomited me out. 1

Lamentations 2:5Adonoi was like an oyev; 1 He hath swallowed up Yisroel, 1 He hath swallowed up all her armonot (palaces); 1 He hath destroyed His strongholds, 1 and hath increased in Bat Yehudah mourning and lamentation. 1

Matthew Henry on Hosea 8:2-8

Sin and Punishment of Israel; Crimes Charged against Israel; Sottish Idolatry of Israel. ( b. c. 745.) 1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord , because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. 2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. 3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. 4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they… Read the whole commentary →

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