Verse 11
"Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding."
As Mays said:
"This is a general observation about how things work in life. Once a man turns to prostitutes and intoxicating drink for pleasure, he loses his judgment. Harlots and wine take away a man's mind (The Hebrew word is heart, the seat of the will and understanding in Hebrew psychology)."[28]
Of course, all sin openly practiced and indulged results in the same destruction of the sinner; but Hosea probably focused upon this because, "It describes the excesses which were committed by the people on the festival days at the Baal shrines."[29]
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