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

5What will you do on the day of the appointed festival And on the day of the feast of the Lord? 6For behold, they will be gone because of destruction; Egypt will gather them together, Memphis will bury them. Weeds will take possession of their treasures of silver; Thorns will be in their tents. The days of punishment have come, The days of retribution have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, The inspired person is insane, Because of the grossness of your wrongdoing, And because your hostility is so great. 8Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet; Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways, And there is only hostility in the house of his God. 9They are deeply depraved As in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt, He will punish 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

• The daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• punishmentפְּקֻדָּהpeqûddâh · punishmentH6486
• have comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• retributionשִׁלּוּםshillûm shillûm · recompenseH7966
• Let Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• The prophetנָבִיאnâbîy' · prophetH5030
• foolאֱוִיל'ĕvîyl · fool(ish)H191
• inspiredרוּחַrûach · spiritH7307
• personאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
• insaneשָׁגַעshâga‛ · be madH7696
• Becauseעַל‛al · uponH5921
• of the grossnessרֹבrôb · abundanceH7230
• wrongdoingעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: crimeH5771
• hostilityמַשְׂטֵמָהmaώţêmâh · hatredH4895
• greatרַבrab · manyH7227

Cross-references for Hosea 9:7

• Isaiah 10:3Now what will you do in the day of punishment, And in the devastation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your wealth?
• Jeremiah 10:15They are worthless, a work of mockery; At the time of their punishment they will perish.
• Jeremiah 11:23and a remnant will not be left to them, because I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth--the year of their punishment.”
• Jeremiah 46:21Also her mercenaries in her midst Are like fattened calves, For they too have turned away and have fled together; They did not stand their ground. For the day of their disaster has come upon them, The time of their punishment.
• Ezekiel 7:2“And you, son of man, this is what the Lord God says to the land of Israel: ‘An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land.
• Ezekiel 12:22“Son of man, what is this proverb you people have about the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are long, and every vision fails’?
• Amos 8:2And He said, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel. I will not spare them any longer.
• Micah 7:4The best of them is like a thorn bush, The most upright like a thorn hedge. The day when you post your watchmen, Your punishment is coming. Then their confusion will occur.
• Zephaniah 1:14The great day of the Lord is near, Near and coming very quickly; Listen, the day of the Lord! In it the warrior cries out bitterly.
• Luke 21:22because these are days of punishment, so that all things which have been written will be fulfilled.
• Revelation 16:19The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.
• Isaiah 26:11Lord, Your hand is lifted up, yet they do not see it. They see Your zeal for the people and are put to shame; Indeed, fire will devour Your enemies.
• Ezekiel 25:17I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they will know that I am the Lord, when I inflict My vengeance on them.”’”
• Ezekiel 38:23So I will prove Myself great, show Myself holy, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the Lord.”’
• Hosea 9:8Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet; Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways, And there is only hostility in the house of his God.
• Jeremiah 6:14They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially, Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ But there is no peace.

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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In the dictionaries

• Israel
• Spiritual Man
• Cornfloor
• Deeply
• Depart
• Mad
• Miscarrying
• Holy Spirit
• Hosea
• Revelation

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