Hosea 7:15
Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
In Context
Cross References
2 Kings 13:5(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
2 Kings 14:25He restored the border of Israel from the entering in of Hamath unto the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath-hepher.
Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage, and the peoples imagine a vain thing?
Psalms 94:12Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest out of thy law;
Proverbs 3:11My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his reproof:
Hosea 13:9It is thy destruction, O Israel, that thou art against me, against thy help.
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 →