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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)The time of Israel’s punishment has come; the day of payment is here. Soon Israel will know this all too well. Because of your great sin and hostility, you say, “The prophets are crazy and the inspired men are fools!”

Context of Hosea 9:7

5What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals, on the feast days of the Lord? 6Even if they escape from destruction, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers, and thorns will overrun their tents. 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. 8The prophet, along with my God, is the watchman over Ephraim, yet snares await him on all his paths, and hostility in the house of his God. 9They have sunk deep into corruption, as in the days of Gibeah. God will remember their wickedness and 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 10:3What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?
• Jeremiah 10:15They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish.
• Jeremiah 11:23Not even a remnant will be left to them, because I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”
• Jeremiah 46:21The mercenaries in her ranks are like fattened calves. They too will turn and flee together, they will not stand their ground, for the day of disaster is coming upon them, the time for them to be punished.
• Ezekiel 7:2“Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says to the land of Israel: “ ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land!
• Ezekiel 12:22“Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by and every vision comes to nothing’?
• Amos 8:2“What do you see, Amos?” he asked. “A basket of ripe fruit,” I answered. Then the Lord said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
• Micah 7:4The best of them is like a brier, the most upright worse than a thorn hedge. The day God visits you has come, the day your watchmen sound the alarm. Now is the time of your confusion.
• Zephaniah 1:14The great day of the Lord is near— near and coming quickly. The cry on the day of the Lord is bitter; the Mighty Warrior shouts his battle cry.
• Luke 21:22For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written.
• Revelation 16:19The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.
• Isaiah 26:11Lord, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.
• Ezekiel 25:17I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my wrath. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I take vengeance on them.’ ”
• Ezekiel 38:23And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’
• Hosea 9:8The prophet, along with my God, is the watchman over Ephraim, yet snares await him on all his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
• Jeremiah 6:14They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when 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