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Hosea 13:3
3Therefore, they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, or like smoke from a 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 died. 2Now they continue to sin and make themselves a cast image, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say about them, “Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves.” Therefore, they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, or like smoke from a window. 4I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and no Savior exists 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
Words taken from the KJV.
- Therefore they shall be as the morningבֹּ֫קֶרbôqer · morningH1242
- cloudעָנָן‛ânân · cloudH6051
- and as the earlyשָׁכַםshâkam · to riseH7925
- dewטַלţal · dewH2919
- that passeth awayהָלַךְhâlak · to go: wentH1980
- as the chaffמוֹץmôts môts · chaffH4671
- is driven with the whirlwindסָעַרsâ‛ar · to rageH5590
- out of the floorגֹּ֫רֶןgôren · threshing floorH1637
- and as the smokeעָשָׁן‛âshân · smokeH6227
- out of the chimneyאֲרֻבָּה'ărubbâh · windowH699
Cross-references for Hosea 13:3
- Hosea 6:4What am I going to do with you, Ephraim? What am I going to do with you, Judah? Your love is like the morning mist and like the early dew that vanishes.
- Psalms 1:4The wicked are not like this; instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.
- Psalms 68:2As smoke is blown away, so you blow them away. As wax melts before the fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.
- Psalms 83:12who said, “Let’s seize God’s pastures for ourselves.”
- Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rumble of a huge torrent. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills and like tumbleweeds before a gale.
- Isaiah 41:15See, I will make you into a sharp threshing board, new, with many teeth. You will thresh mountains and pulverize them and make hills into chaff.
- Daniel 2:35Then the iron, the fired clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were shattered and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that 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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