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 in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

and there shall be no remnant to them: for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.

You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel, An end: the end is come on the four corners of the land.

Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?

He said, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then Yahweh said to me, "The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.

For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

Israel

Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.

I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

The prophet

A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler's snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, 'Peace, peace!' when there is no peace.

They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.

Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, but have seen for you false oracles and causes of banishment.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: "I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;" he would be the prophet of this people.

Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.

Yahweh said to me, "Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

Mad

Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, "Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?" He said to them, "You know the man and what his talk was."

Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is insane."

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!"

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

The multitude

If the prophet is deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.