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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 7:14

Howled.. beds] Their prayers do not proceed from any reverential fear of God. They are like the howling of an animal from pain. They cry out because they are in trouble, but their prayers are for material blessings, and they are still rebellious at heart: cp. Job 35:9. They assemble themselves] i.e. meet in religious exercises, but RM has 'cut themselves,' referring to heathen practices in time of tribulation: cp. 1 Kings 18:28.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 7:14. _THEY HAVE NOT CRIED UNTO ME WITH THEIR HEART_] They say they have sought me, but could not find me; that they have cried unto me, but I did not answer. I know they have _cried_, yea...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THEY HAVE NOT CRIED UNTO HIM WITH THEIR HEART, WHEN THEY HOWLED UPON THEIR BEDS - Or, in the present time, “they cry not unto Me when they howl.” They did “cry,” and, it may be, they “cried” even...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 7 The Moral Depravity of Israel _ 1. Their moral depravity (Hosea 7:1) _ 2. Mingling with heathen nations (Hosea 7:8) Hosea 7:1. All the gracious efforts of the Lord to heal Israel resulted...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    HOSEA 7:8 TO HOSEA 8:3. POLITICAL DECAY THE OUTWARD SIGN OF ISRAEL'S MORAL DECAY. The attempts to cure national ills and secure safety by foreign aid, instead of by turning to Yahweh, are foredoomed t...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEY HAVE NOT CRIED. Compare Job 35:9; Job 35:10; Psalms 78:36; Jeremiah 3:10;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _with their heart, when they howled_ Rather, IN THEIR HEART, BUT THEY HOWL. The prophet contrasts the quiet communion of the heart with Jehovah and the wild-beastlike -howling" of the impenitent Israe...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ISRAEL REBELLED MORE AND MORE -- HOSEA 7:14-16:_ The rebellion of Israel against God has brought on devastation. God was their rightful king and ruler. He had always ruled fairly and with their good...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1161 THE PRAYERS OF UNREGENERATE MEN CONSIDERED Hosea 7:14. _They have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds_. IT is not without reason that prayer has been...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THEY HAVE NOT CRIED UNTO ME, &C.— _Nor do they cry unto me from their heart: They howl on their beds, for the want of corn and wine. They are enraged, and take counsel_ or _rebel against me._ Houb...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDELOVE OF SIN TEXT: Hosea 7:8-16 8 Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me. AND THEY HAVE NOT CRIED UNTO ME WITH THEIR H...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 7 V1 I want to heal my people Israel! Then people will know that *Ephraim has *sinned....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CRIED... HOWLED — God discriminates between a heart-cry to Him, and a howl of despair, resembling the yell of a wild beast. A howl upon their bed is not a sob of true repentance. THEY ASSEMBLE THEMSEL...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ לֹֽא ־זָעֲק֤וּ אֵלַי֙ בְּ לִבָּ֔ם כִּ֥י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    1. THE CONFUSION OF THE NATION Hosea 7:8; Hosea 8:1 Hosea begins by summing up the public aspect of Israel in two epigrams, short but of marvelous adequacy:-Hosea 7:8 "Ephraim-among the nations he...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    INIQUITY UNCOVERED Hosea 7:1-16 The last clause of the previous chapter belongs to this. God desired to turn aside the captivity of His people and to heal Israel, but His pleading was unavailing beca...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The prophet then declared more particularly the true state of affairs. The divine desire to heal was frustrated by the pollution and the people's persistent ignoring of God. Hosea graphically describe...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And they have not cried unto me with their heart, (l) when they howled upon their beds: (m) they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me. (l) When they were in affliction,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Thought: "ruminated." (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "assembled, or been afraid." Septuagint, "they were cut," (Calmet) in honour of idols, hoping to avert the famine. (St. Cyril)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    We have here a continuation of the same subject, namely, the Lord's remonstrance with Israel. But I pray the Reader to observe, how many sweet and gracious expressions of our God are mingled with his...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet here again reproves the Israelites for having not repented, after having been so often admonished; for, as it was said yesterday, all the chastisements which God by his own hand inflicts o...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this resource, beca...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THEY HAVE NOT CRIED UNTO ME WITH THEIR HEART,.... In their distress, indeed, they cried unto the Lord, and said they repented of their sins, and promised reformation, and made a show of worshippin...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me. Ver. 14. _And they have not cried unto me...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Hos. 7:14. "And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds." In their calamities which they suffered, they are compared to sick and wounded men, as chap. Hosea 5:13...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Wo unto them_, &c. These are words both of menace and lamentation. The prophet at once foretels and bewails their miseries. _For they have fled from me_ As if it had not been enough that they at firs...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    HYPOCRISY REBUKED...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And they have not cried unto Me with their heart, for whatever praying they did was performed in hypocrisy, WHEN THEY HOWLED UPON THEIR BEDS, with cries of sleepless anguish, after the usual manner of...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AND THEY, immersed in these troubles. taken in the net, have not cried unto me; either they cried to their idols, not to God, see HOSEA 7:7; or else their tongues made noise, their hearts were silent,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hosea 7:14 out H2199 (H8804) heart H3820 wailed H3213 (H8686) beds H4904 assemble H1481 (H8709) grain...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And they have not cried to me with their heart, But they howl on their beds, They assemble themselves for grain and new wine, They rebel against me.' For rather than calling on YHWH from their hea...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    EPHRAIM (ISRAEL) ARE PICTURED AS A HAPLESS DOVE FLUTTERING BETWEEN EGYPT AND ASSYRIA AS THEY ENDEAVOUR TO AVOID YHWH'S NET (HOSEA 7:11). Ephraim are now depicted as being willing to do anything rather...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Hosea 7:14 I. The grand motive which should influence the sinner in turning to God is love to the kind and gracious Father, who has so long borne with his waywardness; and a sincere desire to promote...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's response to Israel's, cry, continued. Israel's sad state. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If sinful souls are not healed and helped, but perish in their sin and misery, they cannot...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Hosea 7:1. _When I would have healed Israel,_ by Jehu's zeal for the Lord, then the idolatrous priests, like troops of robbers, gathered round him with lies in their mouth, and persuaded him to retain...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:4 Hosea compares Israel to an oven (vv. Hosea 7:4), a half-baked cake (vv. Hosea 7:8), a silly dove (vv....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:14 GASH THEMSELVES. Probably to call on Baal (see 1 Kings 18:28)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 7:14. CRIED] in anguish, not in penitence. HOWLED] in deep affliction and despair. ASSEMBLE] Crowd together in idol temple to deprecate famine and depart from God. REBEL] Lit....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This chapter may be divided into three sections. In the first section, including Hosea 7:1, the prophet reproves with much but deserved severity the depraved morals of king and princes. In...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The Lord continues His response to them. When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 2:8; Amos 8:3; Exodus 32:6; Hosea 3:1; Isaiah 29:13;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    They assembled — In the houses of their idols....

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