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Hosea 4:19
19Now a strong wind will pick them up and take them away. They will become ashamed because of their sacrifices to false gods.
Hosea 4:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
- New International Version (NIV)A whirlwind will sweep them away, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.
- English Standard Version (ESV)A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The wind has wrapped her up in its wings, And they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
Context of Hosea 4:19
17The people of Israel enjoy their idols. Do not go near them! 18After they have drunk enough wine, they are happy to sleep with prostitutes. They enjoy doing things that should make them ashamed. Now a strong wind will pick them up and take them away. They will become ashamed because of their sacrifices to false gods.
Read all of Hosea 4Hosea 4:19 word by word
צָרַ֥ר ר֛וּחַ אוֹתָ֖הּ בִּכְנָפֶ֑יהָ וְיֵבֹ֖שׁוּ מִזִּבְחוֹתָֽם סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Hosea 4:19
- Jeremiah 4:11The Lord will tell the people at that time, ‘A hot wind will blow from the hills in the desert. It will not be a little wind that blows chaff from wheat. It will be a strong storm that blows away the people that I love.
- Jeremiah 51:1The Lord says this: ‘I will send an enemy to destroy Babylon and the people of Babylonia. It will come like a strong wind that blows them away.
- Zechariah 5:9Then I looked up and I saw two women. They flew towards me with strong wings. The wind carried them as the wind carries large birds. They lifted the basket between the earth and the sky.
- Hosea 10:6Assyria's army will carry the idol away. It will be a gift to give honour to Assyria's great king. Ephraim's people will feel ashamed. They will be sorry that they trusted in their wooden idol.
- Isaiah 1:29You will become ashamed because you trusted special oak trees to help you. You worshipped idols in your special gardens, and you will be ashamed because of that.
- Isaiah 42:17But I will push away people who trust idols to help them. Those people will become ashamed. They say to images that they have made, “You are our gods.”
- Jeremiah 2:26A robber is ashamed when people catch him. The people of Israel will become ashamed like that. They will all be ashamed of their sins. Their kings, their officers, their priests and their prophets are all guilty.
- Jeremiah 3:24Since we were a young nation, we have seen all our good things disappear. The useless gods that we worshipped have taken them. They took away the things that our ancestors worked to get. They took away our sheep and our cows. They even took away our sons and our daughters.
- Jeremiah 17:13You are the one that the Israelites hope in. Everyone who turns away from you will be ashamed. They will disappear, as if their names are written in the dust. Lord, you give life to your people, like a spring of fresh water. But they have turned against you.
Commentaries on Hosea 4:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19The wind hath bound her - A parching wind has blasted them in their wings - coasts, borders; or they are carried away into captivity, as with the most rapid blight. These two last verses are very obscure.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19The wind hath bound her up in her wings - When God brought Israel out of Egypt, He “bare them on eagle‘s wings, and brought them unto Himself” Exodus 19:4; Deuteronomy 32:11. Now they had abandoned God, and God abandoned them as chaff to the wind. The certainty of Israel‘s doom is denoted by its being spoken of in the past. It was certain in the divine judgment. Sudden, resistless, irreversible are God‘s judgments, when they come. As if “imprisoned in the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-19Verses 12-19 The people consulted images, and not the Divine word. This would lead to disorder and sin. Thus men prepare scourges for themselves, and vice is spread through a people. Let not Judah come near the idolatrous worship of Israel. For Israel was devoted to idols, and must now be let alone. When sinners cast off the easy yoke of Christ, they go on in sin till the Lord saith, Let them alone. Then they receive no more warnings, feel no more…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. Israel shall be swept away from her land (Ho 4:16) suddenly and violently as if by "the wings of the wind" (Psa 18:10; 104:3; Jr 4:11, 12). ashamed ... of their sacrifices--disappointed to their shame in their hope of help through their sacrifices to idols.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Hosea 4
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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