Berean Standard Bible
Hosea 13:3
3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
Hosea 13:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
- New International Version (NIV)Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears, like chaff swirling from a threshing floor, like smoke escaping through a window.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore they shall be like the morning cloud And like the early dew that passes away, Like chaff blown off from a threshing floor And like smoke from a chimney.
Context of Hosea 13:3
1When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died. 2Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!” Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window. 4Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me. 5I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
Read all of Hosea 13Hosea 13:3 word by word
לָכֵ֗ן יִֽהְיוּ֙ כַּעֲנַן־בֹּ֔קֶר וְכַטַּ֖ל מַשְׁכִּ֣ים הֹלֵ֑ךְ כְּמֹץ֙ יְסֹעֵ֣ר מִגֹּ֔רֶן וּכְעָשָׁ֖ן מֵאֲרֻבָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
- Thereforeכֵּןkên · soH3651
- they will beהָיָהhâyâh · to beH1961
- like the morningבֹּ֫קֶרbôqer · morningH1242
- mistעָנָן‛ânân · cloudH6051
- like the earlyשָׁכַםshâkam · to riseH7925
- dewטַלţal · dewH2919
- that vanishesהָלַךְhâlak · to go: wentH1980
- like chaffמוֹץmôts môts · chaffH4671
- blownסָעַרsâ‛ar · to rageH5590
- from a threshing floorגֹּ֫רֶןgôren · threshing floorH1637
- like smokeעָשָׁן‛âshân · smokeH6227
- through an open windowאֲרֻבָּה'ărubbâh · windowH699
Cross-references for Hosea 13:3
- Hosea 6:4What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
- Psalms 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
- Psalms 68:2As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.
- Psalms 83:12who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.”
- Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
- Isaiah 41:15Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
- Daniel 2:35Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
Commentaries on Hosea 13:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Therefore they shall be as the morning Cloud - as the early Dew - as the Chaff - as the Smoke - Four things, most easy to be driven about and dissipated, are employed here to show how they should be scattered among the nations, and dissipated by captivity.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud - There is often a fair show of prosperity, out of God; but it is short-lived. “The third generation,” says the pagan proverb, “never enjoys the ill-gotten gain.” The highest prosperity of an ungodly state is often the next to its fall. Israel never so flourished, as under Jeroboam II. Bright and glistening with light is “the early dew;” in an hour it is gone, as if it had never been. Glowing and gilded by the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3God judged idolatrous Ephraim by saying they would disappear (compare Hosea 6:4). Mist, dew, chaff, and smoke all represent things that do not last.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. they shall be as the morning cloud ... dew--(Ho 6:4). As their "goodness" soon vanished like the morning cloud and dew, so they shall perish like them. the floor--the threshing-floor, generally an open area, on a height, exposed to the winds. chimney--generally in the East an orifice in the wall, at once admitting the light, and giving egress to the smoke.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Hosea 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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