Hosea 4:19

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 4:12-19

In these verses we have, as before, I. The sins charged upon the people of Israel, for which God had a controversy with them, and they are, 1. Spiritual whoredom, or idolatry. They have in them a spirit of whoredoms, a strong inclination to that sin; the bent and bias of their hearts are that way; it is their own iniquity; they are carried out towards it with an unaccountable violence, and this causes them to err. Note, The errors and mistakes of the judgment are commonly owing to the corrupt... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 4:19

The wind hath bound her up in her wings ,.... That is, the wind in its wings hath bound up Ephraim, Israel, or the ten tribes, compared to a heifer; meaning, that the wind of God's wrath and vengeance, or the enemy, the Assyrian, should come like a whirlwind, and carry them swiftly, suddenly, and irresistibly, out of their own land, into a foreign country: the past tense for the future, as is common in prophecy, because of the certainty of it; so Jarchi and Joseph Kimchi: but Aben Ezra,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 4:19

The 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 more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 4:19

Verse 19 If this rendering be approved, The wind hath bound her in its wings, the meaning is, that a sudden storm would sweep away the people, and thus would they be made ashamed of their sacrifices. So the past tense is to be taken for the future. We may indeed read the words in the past tense, as though the Prophet was speaking of what had already taken place. The wind, then, has already swept away the people; by which he intimates, that they seemed to have struck long and deep roots in their... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 4:15-19

A passing word of warning is addressed to Judah. The prophet pauses in his dark catalogue of Israel's sins and sorrows, and, turning aside, speaks a word of warning to Judah, that the people of the southern kingdom might be deterred from the crimes and awed by the calamities of their northern neighbors. In the large heart and catholic spirit of the prophet both Judahite and Israelite found a place; he had a message from God for both. I. PLACES PERILOUS TO PIETY SHOULD BE ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 4:15-19

Ephraim and Judah. In this passage, as in Hosea 1:7 , the kingdom of Judah is presented in contrast with that of Israel. Here, for the first time in Hosea, we meet with the name "Ephraim." As the United Kingdom over which Queen Victoria reigns is often called simply "England," so the kingdom of the tea tribes sometimes receives the name of" Ephraim," that tribe being the most powerful of the ten, and having within its bounds the seat of government. I. EPHRAIM 'S SIN . It consisted... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 4:15-19

Warning to Judah. Judah had not yet sunk so low as Israel. She was, however, far from guiltless. Her princes were like them that remove the bound ( Hosea 5:10 ). She is included with Israel in the threatenings that follow ( Hosea 5:5 , Hosea 5:10 , Hosea 5:14 ; Hosea 6:4 , Hosea 6:11 ). "The people did yet corruptly," is the testimony of the history ( 2 Chronicles 27:2 ). Still her case was not so hopeless but that judgment might be averted by timely repentance. There was still... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 4:18-19

The first of these two verses gives a picture of the degeneracy of the times; the second predicts the destruction that would ensue. Their drink is sour (margin, is gone ): they have committed whoredom continually. If the first clause be taken literally, In the one case the wind is the strong storm-wind of Divine wrath that will seize on Ephraim, wrap her up with its wings, and carry her away. In the other, Ephraim wraps up the wind, that is, disappointment, the result of her sin, in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 4:19

Retributive justice. "The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices." The simple meaning of this is, Israel shall be borne away from her land, suddenly and violently, as by the winds of heaven. There is retributive justice in the universe. Men are slow to discern it, and it often moves so silently and secretly as to elude the dim vision of the wicked. Still it is in existence, and it works like the thunderstorm; it may sleep silently in the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 4:19

The 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 viewless winds,” and “borne with... read more

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