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Hosea 4:19
19A wind will wrap her up in its wings. They will be ashamed 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.
- 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.
Context of Hosea 4:19
17Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone! 18Their liquor has come to an end. They surely have practiced prostitution. Her rulers have deeply loved disgrace. A wind will wrap her up in its wings. They will be ashamed of their sacrifices.
Read all of Hosea 4Hosea 4:19 word by word
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 it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the barren hills in the wilderness blows toward My people, but not to winnow or to sift—
- Jeremiah 51:1Thus says Adonai: “Look! Stirring up against Babylon and those living in Leb-kamai, a spirit of destruction.
- Zechariah 5:9After this I lifted up my eyes and behold, I saw two women emerging with the wind in their wings (they had wings like the wings of a stork) and they raised the measuring basket between the earth and the heaven.
- Hosea 10:6It also will be carried to Assyria as tribute to a warring king. Ephraim will receive shame and Israel will be put to shame by its own counsel.
- Isaiah 1:29For they will be ashamed of the sacred oaks that you desired, and embarrassed because of the gardens that you have chosen.
- Isaiah 42:17They will be turned back, utterly put to shame— those trusting in idols, who say to molten images, ‘You are our gods.’
- Jeremiah 2:26As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel is shamed— they, their kings, their princes, their kohanim and their prophets.
- Jeremiah 3:24But the shame has consumed the labor of our fathers since our youth— their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
- Jeremiah 17:13Adonai, You are the hope of Israel! All who forsake You will be ashamed. Those who depart from You will be written in the dirt, for they have forsaken Adonai, the fountain of living waters.
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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