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Hosea 7:15
15I trained them and strengthened their arms, but they plot evil against me.
Hosea 7:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms, Yet they devise evil against Me;
- New Living Translation (NLT)I trained them and made them strong, yet now they plot evil against me.
Context of Hosea 7:15
13Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them but they speak about me falsely. 14They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They slash themselves, appealing to their gods for grain and new wine, but they turn away from me. I trained them and strengthened their arms, but they plot evil against me. 16They do not turn to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because of their insolent words. For this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.
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וַאֲנִ֣י יִסַּ֔רְתִּי חִזַּ֖קְתִּי זְרֽוֹעֹתָ֑ם וְאֵלַ֖י יְחַשְּׁבוּ־רָֽע׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Hosea 7:15
- 2 Kings 13:5The Lord provided a deliverer for Israel, and they escaped from the power of Aram. So the Israelites lived in their own homes as they had before.
- 2 Kings 14:25He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea, in accordance with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.
- Psalms 106:43Many times he delivered them, but they were bent on rebellion and they wasted away in their sin.
- Job 5:17“Blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
- Psalms 94:12Blessed is the one you discipline, Lord, the one you teach from your law;
- Proverbs 3:11My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke,
- Hebrews 12:5And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says, “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,
- Revelation 3:19Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.
- Psalms 2:1Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?
- Psalms 62:3How long will you assault me? Would all of you throw me down— this leaning wall, this tottering fence?
- Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
- Nahum 1:9Whatever they plot against the Lord he will bring to an end; trouble will not come a second time.
- Acts 4:25You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David: “ ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- Romans 1:21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
- 2 Corinthians 10:5We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Commentaries on Hosea 7:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Though I have bound and strengthened their arms - Whether I dealt with them in judgment or mercy, it was all one; in all circumstances they rebelled against me.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15Though I have bound - Rather, (as in the E. M) “And I have chastened, I have strenghened their arms, and they imagine mischief against Me.” God had tried all ways with them, but it was all one. He chastened them in love, and in love He strengthened them; He brought the enemy upon them, (as aforetime in the days of the Judges,) and He gave them strength to repel the enemy; as He raised up judges of old, and lately had fulfilled His promise which He had…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-16Verses 8-16 Israel was as a cake not turned, half burnt and half dough, none of it fit for use; a mixture of idolatry and of the worship of Jehovah. There were tokens of approaching ruin, as grey hairs are of old age, but they noticed them not. The pride which leads to break the law of God leads to self-flattery. The mercy and grace of God are the only refuge to which obstinate sinners never think of fleeing. Though they may howl forth their terrors in…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. I ... bound--when I saw their arms as it were relaxed with various disasters, I bound them so as to strengthen their sinews; image from surgery [Calvin]. Maurer translates, "I instructed them" to war (Psa 18:34; 144:1), namely, under Jeroboam II (2Ki 14:25). Grotius explains, "Whether I chastised them (Margin) or strengthened their arms, they imagined mischief against Me." English Version is best.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Hosea 7
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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