Verse 10
10. As the traveller in a wilderness is delighted at finding grapes to quench his thirst, or the early fig (esteemed a great delicacy in the East, Isaiah 28:4; Jeremiah 24:2; Micah 7:1); so it was My delight to choose your fathers as My peculiar people in Egypt (Hosea 2:15).
at her first time—when the first-fruits of the tree become ripe.
went to Baal-peor— (Hosea 2:15- :): the Moabite idol, in whose worship young women prostituted themselves; the very sin Israel latterly was guilty of.
separated themselves—consecrated themselves.
unto that shame—to that shameful or foul idol (Jeremiah 11:13).
their abominations were according as they loved—rather, as Vulgate, "they became abominable like the object of their love" (Deuteronomy 7:26; Psalms 115:8). English Version gives good sense, "their abominable idols they followed after, according as their lusts prompted them" (Psalms 115:8- :, Margin).
Be the first to react on this!