Hosea 10:15

So shall Beth-el, &c. Such is the awful judgment of which the idolatry of Bethel is the cause.

your great wickedness Lit., -your wickedness of wickedness", with which some compare the phrases -song of songs", -holy of holies." But it is more natural to suppose that the word -wickedness" was written twice over by accident.

in a morning Rather, in the dawn. The meaning is that when the morning-grey appears, the king will be found to be cut off. All has happened as quickly as time seems to have passed when we awake (comp. Psalms 90:6, -they become as a sleep").