Hosea 13:3

Therefore, those people will disappear quickly like [SIM] the morning mist or the dew that lies on the ground early in the morning; they will disappear like [SIM] chaff that is blown away from where the wheat is threshed, like [SIM] smoke that goes out of a chimney.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

In Context

2Now they sin more and more; they make idols for themselves and coat the idols with their silver. Those idols are statues that are very cleverly made, but those statues are made by mere humans. But the people are told, “Kiss those idols that resemble a calf, and offer sacrifices to them!”

4But Yahweh says to his people, “I am Yahweh, your God, the one who brought your ancestors out of Egypt. You must believe that only I am God and that there is no other God, and that there is no one else who can save you!

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Cross References

Psalms 1:4But wicked people are not like that! Wicked people are as worthless as chaff that is blown away by the wind.

Psalms 83:12who said, “We will take for ourselves the land that the Israelis say belongs to God!”

Isaiah 41:15I will cause you to be like [MET] a ◄threshing sledge/big piece of metal that has sharp teeth for separating grain from chaff►. You will tear your enemies to bits, causing them to be like bits of chaff on the mountains.

Hosea 6:4But Yahweh knows they are insincere; so he says to them, “You people of Israel, and you people of Judah, I do not know [RHQ] what I should do to you. Your being faithful to me will disappear as quickly as [SIM] the morning mist disappears, like [SIM] the dew on the ground that disappears quickly when the sun shines.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 13:2-5

Reproofs and Threatenings. ( b. c. 722.) 1 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. 2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the… Read the whole commentary →

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