Hosea 9:7

Hosea 9:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)The days of punishment are coming, the days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired person a maniac.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The days of punishment have come; The days of recompense have come. Israel knows! The prophet is a fool, The spiritual man is insane, Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.

Context of Hosea 9:7

5So what will you do on your festival days? You will no longer be able to worship the Lord properly. 6Listen! Perhaps some Israelites will escape when Assyria's army attacks. But then Egypt's army will take hold of them. They will die in Memphis and people will bury them there. Weeds will grow all over their valuable silver things. Thorn bushes will grow in their homes. The time for Israel's punishment has arrived! The Lord must now pay them back for their sins. The Israelites will soon know about it! You do many sins and you hate the Lord. Because of that, you say that his prophets are fools. You think that his messengers are crazy. 8God has sent his prophet to warn the people of Ephraim. But wherever he goes, people try to stop him. They speak angry words against him, even in the temple of his God. 9The Israelites do very wicked things, like the terrible sins that they did at Gibeah. God will not forget the wicked things that they have done. He will surely punish them for their sins.

Hosea 9:7 word by word

בָּ֣אוּ׀ יְמֵ֣י הַפְּקֻדָּ֗ה בָּ֚אוּ יְמֵ֣י הַשִׁלֻּ֔ם יֵדְע֖וּ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אֱוִ֣יל הַנָּבִ֗יא מְשֻׁגָּע֙ אִ֣ישׁ הָר֔וּחַ עַ֚ל רֹ֣ב עֲוֹנְךָ֔ וְרַבָּ֖ה מַשְׂטֵמָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• The daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• of visitationפְּקֻדָּהpeqûddâh · punishmentH6486
• are comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• of recompenceשִׁלּוּםshillûm shillûm · recompenseH7966
• Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• shall knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• the prophetנָבִיאnâbîy' · prophetH5030
• a foolאֱוִיל'ĕvîyl · fool(ish)H191
• the spiritualרוּחַrûach · spiritH7307
• manאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
• madשָׁגַעshâga‛ · be madH7696
• for the multitudeרֹבrôb · abundanceH7230
• of thine iniquityעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: crimeH5771
• and the greatרַבrab · manyH7227
• hatredמַשְׂטֵמָהmaώţêmâh · hatredH4895

Cross-references for Hosea 9:7

• Isaiah 10:3It will be bad for you on the day when God comes to judge people. You will not escape the punishment that he will bring from far away. There will be nobody to help you. There will be no safe place to hide your valuable things.
• Jeremiah 10:15They are useless things that people should laugh at. When the time for their punishment arrives, God will destroy them.
• Jeremiah 11:23All those men in Anathoth who wanted to kill you will die. At the right time, I will punish them with great trouble.’
• Jeremiah 46:21Egypt has paid soldiers from other countries to help her. But they are like fat calves that are too weak to fight. They will not stand and fight, but they will turn and run away. Yes, the day of Egypt's punishment has arrived! Their enemy has come to destroy them.
• Ezekiel 7:2‘Son of man, this is what I, the Almighty Lord, say to the land of Israel: The end is now here! I will soon destroy the whole land.
• Ezekiel 12:22‘Son of man, you have this proverb in the land of Israel: “A long time passes and visions never truly happen.”
• Amos 8:2He asked me, ‘Amos, what do you see?’ I answered him, ‘I see a basket of summer fruit.’ Then the Lord said to me, ‘The time has now come to punish my people. I will not forgive them any longer.
• Micah 7:4The best of them are dangerous like wild plants with thorns. The most honest of them are worse than thorn bushes. The bad time that your prophets told you about is coming. Soon God will punish you, and you will be confused.
• Zephaniah 1:14The time for the great day of the Lord is coming very soon. It will happen quickly. Strong men will weep when they hear the noise of it.
• Luke 21:22This is when God will punish Israel's people. Then all the things will happen that his servants wrote about in the Bible.
• Revelation 16:19As a result, the great city of Babylon broke into three parts. When the ground shook, it also destroyed the big cities of other nations in the world. God did not forget the evil things that the people of the great city of Babylon had done. So they had to drink wine from the cup of God's great anger.
• Isaiah 26:11Lord, you are ready to punish them, but they do not realize that. Make them see that you love your own people. Then they will become ashamed. In your anger, punish them with fire, as your enemies deserve.
• Ezekiel 25:17I will punish them very much because of the things that they have done. I will show them that I am very angry with them. When and I punish them as they deserve, they will know that I am the Lord. ’
• Ezekiel 38:23I will show all the nations that I am great and I am holy. Then they will know that I am the Lord.” ’
• Hosea 9:8God has sent his prophet to warn the people of Ephraim. But wherever he goes, people try to stop him. They speak angry words against him, even in the temple of his God.
• Jeremiah 6:14They tell my people that their wounds are not bad. They say to them, “No problem! You will have peace!” But there will be no peace for my people.

Commentaries on Hosea 9:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7The days of visitation - Of punishment are come. The prophet is a fool - Who has pretended to foretell, on Divine authority, peace and plenty; for behold all is desolation. The spiritual man - הרוח איש ish haruach, the man of spirit, who was ever pretending to be under a Divine afflatus. Is mad - He is now enraged to see every thing falling out contrary to his prediction.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7The days of visitation are come - The false prophets had continually hood-winked the people, promising them that those days would never come. “They had put far away the evil day” Amos 6:3. Now it was not at hand only. In God‘s purpose, those “days” were “come,” irresistible, inevitable, inextricable; days in which God would visit, what in His long-suffering, He seemed to overlook, and would “recompense each according to his works.” Israel shall know it…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-10Verses 7-10 Time had been when the spiritual watchmen of Israel were with the Lord, but now they were like the snare of a fowler to entangle persons to their ruin. The people were become as corrupt as those of Gibeah, Judg. 19; and their crimes should be visited in like manner. At first God had found Israel pleasing to Him, as grapes to the traveller in the wilderness. He saw them with pleasure as the first ripe figs. This shows the delight God took in…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7The Israelites who turned away from their faith did not believe God's warnings from the prophets. They mocked the prophets, calling them crazy.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. visitation--vengeance: punishment (Is 10:3). Israel shall know it--to her cost experimentally (Is 9:9). the prophet is a fool--The false prophet who foretold prosperity to the nation shall be convicted of folly by the event. the spiritual man--the man pretending to inspiration (La 2:14; Eze 13:3; Mi 3:11; Zep 3:4). for the multitude of thine iniquity, &c.--Connect these words with, "the days of visitation ... are come"; "the prophet ... is mad," being…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Hosea 9

• 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