English Standard Version
Hosea 4:19
19A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The wind has wrapped her up in its wings, And they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
- New Living Translation (NLT)So a mighty wind will sweep them away. Their sacrifices to idols will bring them shame.
Context of Hosea 4:19
17Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone. 18When their drink is gone, they give themselves to whoring; their rulers dearly love shame. A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
Read all of Hosea 4Hosea 4:19 word by word
צָרַ֥ר ר֛וּחַ אוֹתָ֖הּ בִּכְנָפֶ֑יהָ וְיֵבֹ֖שׁוּ מִזִּבְחוֹתָֽם סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Hosea 4:19
- Jeremiah 4:11At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,
- Jeremiah 51:1Thus says the Lord: "Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai,
- Zechariah 5:9Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! The wind was in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.
- Hosea 10:6The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim shall be put to shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.
- Isaiah 1:29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks that you desired; and you shall blush for the gardens that you have chosen.
- Isaiah 42:17They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal images, "You are our gods."
- Jeremiah 2:26"As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets,
- Jeremiah 3:24"But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
- Jeremiah 17:13O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.
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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