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

What will you do on the day of Judgment, in the calamity that will come from far away? To whom will you run for help, and where will you leave your wealth,

They're worthless, a work of mockery, and when the time of punishment comes, they'll perish.

Not one of them will be left, for I'll bring disaster on the men of Anathoth when I punish them."

Even the mercenary troops in her ranks are like a fattened calf. They too will turn around, and will flee together. They won't stand, for the day of their disaster is coming on them, the time of their punishment.

"Son of Man, this is what Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: "It's over! All four corners of the land are out of time!

"Son of Man, what's this proverb you have concerning Israel's land that says, "The days pass slowly and every vision ends in nothing.'?

And he was asking, "What do you see, Amos?" I answered, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD told me, "The end approaches for my people Israel. I will no longer spare them.

The best of them is like a thorn, and their most upright like a hedge of thorns. The day announced by your watchmen and by your own calculations approaches. Now it's your time to be confused!

"The great Day of the LORD approaches How it comes, hurrying faster and faster! The sound of the Day of the LORD there includes the bitter cry of the mighty soldier.

because these are the days of vengeance when all that is written will be fulfilled.

The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. God remembered to give Babylon the Great the cup of wine filled with the fury of his wrath.

Israel

"LORD, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see it. And let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame yes, let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them!

I'll take vengeance on them, punishing them severely in my anger. They'll know that I am the LORD when I take my vengeance on them."'"

I will exalt myself and demonstrate my holiness, making myself known to many people, who will learn that I am the LORD.'"

The prophet

While Ephraim stands watch with my God, the prophet has snares set that will trap his ways, and hostility lodges in the Temple of his God.

They treated my people's wound superficially, telling them, "Peace, peace,' but there is no peace.

They have treated my people's wound superficially, telling them, "Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.

This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Don't listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you; they're giving you false hopes. They declare visions from their own minds they don't come from the LORD!

Your prophets look on your behalf; they see false and deceptive visions. They did not expose your sins in order to restore what had been captured. Instead, they crafted oracles for you that are false and misleading.

"This is what the Lord GOD says, "How terrible it will be for the false prophets who walk according to their own wrong inclinations and see nothing.

Suppose a man who keeps company with a deceiving spirit prophesies like this: "Drink wine and strong drink!' Won't the people accept him as a prophet?"

Its prophets are arrogant and treacherous. Its priests have contaminated the sanctuary. They give perverse interpretations of the Law.

The LORD told me, "Pick up the tools of a worthless shepherd again,

Mad

As Jehu was coming out to his master's attendants, one of them asked him, "Is everything all right? Why did this maniac visit you?" "You know the man and how he speculates," Jehu replied.

The LORD made you a priest instead of Jehoiada the priest to serve in the LORD's Temple as an official against every crazy prophet, and to put him in stocks and restraints.

When his family heard about it, they went to restrain him, because they kept saying, "He's out of his mind!"

As he continued his defense, Festus shouted, "You're out of your mind, Paul! Too much education is driving you crazy!"

So if we were crazy, it was for God; if we are sane, it is for you.

The multitude

"Now as to the prophet, if through deceit he delivers a message, I the LORD have deceived that prophet! I'll reach out in opposition to him and exterminate him from among my people Israel.

and every type of evil to deceive those who are dying, those who refused to love the truth that would save them.