Hosea 9:7
7. visitation—vengeance: punishment (Isa 10:3).
Israel shall know it—to her cost experimentally (Isa 9:9). the prophet is a fool—The false prophet who foretold prosperity to the nation shall be convicted of folly by the event. the spiritual man—the man pretending to inspiration (La 2:14; Eze 13:3; Mic 3:11; Zep 3:4). for the multitude of thine iniquity, &c.—Connect these words with, "the days of visitation . . . are come"; "the prophet . . . is mad," being parenthetical. the great hatred—or, "the great provocation" [HENDERSON]; or, "(thy) great apostasy" [MAURER]. English Version means Israel's "hatred" of God's prophets and the law.
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