Hosea 9:7

The days for punishment are coming; 1 the days for retribution are coming. 1 Let all Israel know these things. 1 The prophet is a fool, 1 and the inspired man is insane, 1 because of your great iniquity 1 and great hostility. 1

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The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

In Context

6For, look, if they escape from destruction, 1 Egypt will gather them, 1 and Memphis will bury them. 1 As for their treasures of silver— 1 sharp briers will possess them, 1 and thorns will fill their tents. 1

8The prophet is the watchman for my God over Ephraim. 1 But a bird snare is on all of his paths, 1 and hostility toward him is in the house of his God. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 10:3What will you do on judgment day when the destruction comes from far away? 1 To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth? 1

Isaiah 34:8For it will be a day of vengeance for Yahweh and a year when he will pay them back for the cause of Zion. 1

Jeremiah 6:14They have healed the wounds of my people lightly, 1 saying, 'Peace, Peace,' when there is no peace. 1

Jeremiah 10:15They are useless, the work of mockers; they will perish at the time of their punishment. 1

Jeremiah 16:18I will first pay back double for their iniquity and sin for their polluting of my land with their disgusting idol figures, and for their filling my inheritance with their disgusting idols.” 1

Jeremiah 29:26“Yahweh has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, for you to be in charge of Yahweh's house. You are in control of all the people who rave and make themselves into prophets. You should put them in stocks and chains.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 9:2-7

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 740.) 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every corn-floor. 2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. 3 They shall not dwell in the Lord 's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord , neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto… Read the whole commentary →

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