Hosea 9:7

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Hosea 9:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Days of visitation

Israel

Isaiah 26:11

Ezekiel 25:17

Ezekiel 38:23

The prophet

Mad

2 Corinthians 5:13

The multitude

Ezekiel 14:9

2 Thessalonians 2:10

Bible References

Days of visitation

Now what will you do in the day of punishment,
And in the devastation which will come from afar?

To whom will you flee for help?

And where will you leave your wealth?

They are worthless, a work of mockery;
In the time of their punishment they will perish.

and a remnant will not be left to them, for I will bring disaster on the men of Anathoth—the year of their punishment.”

“Also her mercenaries in her midst
Are like fattened calves,
For even they too have turned back and have fled away together;
They did not stand their ground.
For the day of their calamity has come upon them,
The time of their punishment.

“And you, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land.

“Son of man, what is this proverb you people have concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are long and every vision fails’?

He said, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel. I will

spare them no longer.

The best of them is like a briar,
The most upright like a thorn hedge.
The day when you post your watchmen,
Your punishment will come.
Then their confusion will occur.

Near is the great day of the Lord,
Near and coming very quickly;
Listen, the day of the Lord!

In it the warrior cries out bitterly.

because these are days of vengeance, so that all things which are written will be fulfilled.

The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.

Israel

O Lord, Your hand is lifted up yet they do not see it.

They see Your zeal for the people and are put to shame;

Indeed,

fire will devour Your enemies.

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they will know that I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance on them.”’”

I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the Lord.”’

The prophet

Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.

“They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially,
Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
But there is no peace.

“They heal the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially,
Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
But there is no peace.

Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you.
They are leading you into futility;
They speak a vision of their own imagination,
Not from the mouth of the Lord.

Your prophets have seen for you
False and foolish visions;
And they have not exposed your iniquity
So as to restore you from captivity,
But they have seen for you false and misleading oracles.

Thus says the Lord God, “Woe to the foolish prophets who are following their own spirit and have seen nothing.

“If a man walking after wind and falsehood
Had told lies and said,
‘I will speak out to you concerning wine and liquor,’
He would be spokesman to this people.

Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men;
Her priests have profaned the sanctuary.
They have done violence to the law.

The Lord said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment of a

foolish shepherd.

Mad

Now Jehu came out to the servants of his master, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” And he said to them, “You know very well the man and his talk.”

“The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to be the

overseer in the house of the Lord over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and in the iron collar,

When His own people heard of this, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “He has lost His senses.”

While Paul was saying this in his defense, Festus *said in a loud voice, “Paul, you are out of your mind! Your great learning is driving you mad.”

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

The multitude

“But if the prophet is prevailed upon to speak a word, it is I, the Lord, who have prevailed upon that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.

and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.