Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish - (; ; ; ).
Sea - including all bodies of water, as pools and even rivers (note, ). A general drought, the greatest calamity in the East, is threatened.
Verse Hosea 4:3. _THEREFORE SHALL THE LAND MOURN_] Fruitful seasons shall be denied. _THAT DWELLETH THEREIN SHALL LANGUISH_] _Endemic_ and _epidemic_ _disorders_ shall prevail, and multitudes shall d...
THEREFORE SHALL THE LAND MOURN - Dumb inanimate nature seems to rejoice and to be in unison with our sense of joy, when bedewed and fresh through rain and radiant with light; and, again, to mourn, whe...
II. THE MESSAGE OF EXPOSTULATION, JUDGMENT, AND MERCY CHAPTER 4 The Lord's Controversy with His People _ 1. The condition of the people (Hosea 4:1) _ 2. The loss of their priestly relation (Hosea 4...
THE UTTER CORRUPTION OF THE NATION TRACED TO IRRELIGION. (The text of Hosea 4:15 is hopelessly corrupt. Marti regards Hosea 4:3 as an insertion and Hosea 4:5_ a_ as foreign to their present context.)...
THEREFORE SHALL THE LAND MOURN. Compare Jeremiah 4:28, and Jeremiah 12:4.Amos 5:16, and Amos 8:8. THE BEASTS. the very beasts (Beth essentioe).
The people are summoned to hear whereof Jehovah accuses them, viz. the universal prevalence of the most crying sins. The prophet assures them that this is the true cause of the physical calamity which...
_shall the land mourn_ Or, -doth … continually mourn", for the prophet speaks amidst the anarchical and revolutionary scenes which followed upon the death of Jeroboam II. A severe drought is represent...
_A CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL -- HOSEA 4:1-5:_ When people depart from God's arrangement of things then no one is faithful or loyal or truly cares about God. Without God these people turned to other gods...
THEREFORE SHALL THE LAND MOURN, &C.— _Desolation, drought, and dearth shall come upon the whole land; shall consume both men, and beasts, and fowls, and shall even extend itself to the inhabitants of...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDEA LACK OF KNOWLEDGE TEXT: Hosea 4:1-5 1 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no tru...
CONDEMNATION OF THE PRIESTHOOD An arraignment against Israel as a whole, because of all manner of wickedness against God and man. Prophet and priest, who ought to have taught them better, are only to...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 4 THE *LORD ACCUSES ISRAEL V1 People of Israel, listen to the *Lord’s message! The *Lord will argue against the people that liv...
The mourning of the land is the judgment of famine, which follows not only upon the living men, but upon all living things (the LXX. have introduced into the enumeration the creeping things of the ear...
עַל ־כֵּ֣ן ׀ תֶּאֱבַ֣ל הָ אָ֗רֶץ וְ אֻמְלַל֙
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
“LIKE PEOPLE, LIKE PRIEST” Hosea 4:1-10 This chapter contains a terrible indictment against the whole kingdom. There was neither truth nor mercy in the land, but swearing, lying, and adultery. Apart...
In any attempt to analyze and tabulate the teaching in this second division of the Book it must be remembered that the prophetic utterances cannot be treated as verbatim reports. As they here appear,...
_Together. The waters shall be dried up, or infected. (Calmet) --- When the people are taken away, beasts will not long remain, Jeremias ix. 10., and Sophonias i. 2. (Haydock)_...
Here the Lord follows the sins of his people with his threatened punishments. And it is not the smallest in the account, that the priest and Prophet shall have no weight with the people. Where the Lor...
The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
The Futility of Sin I. INTRODUCTION A. As we continue the study of Hosea this morning - chapter 4 marks a turn that continues through the rest of the book. 1. Hosea 8:7 a (NASB) Give us a hint as t...
The Prophet now expresses more clearly the dispute which he mentions in the first verse; and it now evidently appears, that it was not a judgment expressed in words, for God had in vain tried to bring...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 AND 5. In chapter 4 we see that the prophet addresses the whole people together. In Verse 15 (Hosea 4:15) he distinguishes Judah from Israel, warning the fo...
THEREFORE SHALL THE LAND MOURN,.... Because of the calamities on it, the devastations made in it; nothing growing upon it, through a violent drought; or the grass and corn being trodden down, or eaten...
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. Ve...
_Therefore shall the land mourn_ “Desolation, drought, and dearth shall come upon the whole land; shall consume both men, and beasts, and fowls, and shall even extend itself to the inhabitants of the...
Therefore shall the land mourn, the moral corruption of its inhabitants resulting in the physical destruction of the land and its products, AND EVERY ONE THAT DWELLETH THEREIN SHALL LANGUISH, as thoug...
THE FIRST PART OF THE ACCUSATION...
1-5 Hosea reproves for immorality, as well as idolatry. There was no truth, mercy, or knowledge of God in the land: it was full of murders, 2 Kings 21:16. Therefore calamities were near, which would...
THEREFORE, since their sins are so many and so great, for those very sins already mentioned in the 1st and 2nd verses, SHALL THE LAND, which the ten tribes did now inhabit, mourn: it is a metaphorical...
Hosea 4:3 land H776 mourn H56 (H8799) dwells H3427 (H8802) away H535 (H8797) beasts H2416 field...
‘Therefore will the land mourn, and every one who dwells in it will languish, with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, yes, the fishes of the sea also will be taken away.' The conseq...
ISRAEL'S GROWING SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY AND DEGRADED BEHAVIOUR ARE DESCRIBED ALONG WITH THEIR RELIANCE ON IDOLS, FOREIGNERS, UNWORTHY KINGS AND THEMSELVES, AND THIS IN CONTRAST WITH YHWH'S STEADFAST LOV...
YHWH'S INDICTMENT OF ISRAEL AND WARNING OF THE CONSEQUENCES (HOSEA 4:1). YHWH now charges ‘the people (children) of Israel' with being bereft of all truth and compassion because of their lack of the k...
CONTENTS: Charges against Israel for their sinfulness, idolatry and ignorance. CHARACTERS: God, Hosea. CONCLUSION: It is a sad and sore judgment for men when God has to say, «let them alone» giving...
Hosea 4:1. _Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel._ Here a new sermon is built upon a new revelation. Hosea 4:2. _Blood toucheth blood,_ as explained in the words preseding, adultery upon a...
_Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish._ THE SOCIAL CAUSES OF HUMAN MISERY It is a principle illustrated by the holy records, that when immorality has tho...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 4:1 Accusations, Warnings, and Promises for Israel. In the rest of the book, Hosea details the aspects of Israel’s life that show her unfaithfulness to the Lord, urges her to repen...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 4:1. CONTROV.] = a legal action (cf. Micah 6:2; Joel 3:2), or ground of complaint with the ten tribes (Hosea 4:15). Truth] _i.e._ truthf
EXPOSITION HOSEA 4:1 A new and distinct division of the book commences with this fourth chapter and continues till the close. What had previously been presented in figure and symbol is now plainly an...
Now we enter into the second part of the book of Hosea, where he declares: HEAR the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land (Hsa Hosea...
Amos 1:2; Amos 5:16; Amos 8:8; Ezekiel 38:20; Isaiah 24:4;...
Shall languish — Shall pine away. With the beasts of the field — God punishes man in cutting off what was made for man's benefit; and 'tis probable the tamer cattle were starved for want of grass or f...