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Hosea 4:19
19A whirlwind will sweep them away, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.
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.
- 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.
- 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! 18Even when their drinks are gone, they continue their prostitution; their rulers dearly love shameful ways. A whirlwind will sweep them away, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.
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צָרַ֥ר ר֛וּחַ אוֹתָ֖הּ בִּכְנָפֶ֑יהָ וְיֵבֹ֖שׁוּ מִזִּבְחוֹתָֽם סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Hosea 4:19
- Jeremiah 4:11At that time this people and Jerusalem will be told, “A scorching wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward my people, but not to winnow or cleanse;
- Jeremiah 51:1This is what the Lord says: “See, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon and the people of Leb Kamai.
- Zechariah 5:9Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.
- Hosea 10:6It will be carried to Assyria as tribute for the great king. Ephraim will be disgraced; Israel will be ashamed of its foreign alliances.
- Isaiah 1:29“You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen.
- Isaiah 42:17But those who trust in idols, who say to images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back in utter shame.
- Jeremiah 2:26“As a thief is disgraced when he is caught, so the people of Israel are disgraced— they, their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets.
- Jeremiah 3:24From our youth shameful gods have consumed the fruits of our ancestors’ labor— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.
- Jeremiah 17:13Lord, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the Lord, the spring 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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