
Text -- Hosea 4:19 (NET)




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Wesley: Hos 4:19 - -- The whirlwind of wrath from God hath seized this old adulteress, and carried some of her children away already.
The whirlwind of wrath from God hath seized this old adulteress, and carried some of her children away already.

What they made their confidence, shall be their shame.
JFB: Hos 4:19 - -- Israel shall be swept away from her land (Hos 4:16) suddenly and violently as if by "the wings of the wind" (Psa 18:10; Psa 104:3; Jer 4:11-12).
Israel shall be swept away from her land (Hos 4:16) suddenly and violently as if by "the wings of the wind" (Psa 18:10; Psa 104:3; Jer 4:11-12).

JFB: Hos 4:19 - -- Disappointed to their shame in their hope of help through their sacrifices to idols.
Disappointed to their shame in their hope of help through their sacrifices to idols.
Clarke -> Hos 4:19
Clarke: Hos 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 mo...
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.
Calvin -> Hos 4:19
Calvin: Hos 4:19 - -- 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...
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 superstitions, but that the Lord had already given them up to the wind, that it might hold them tied in its wings. And wings, we know, is elsewhere ascribed to the wind, Psa 104:3. And thus the verse will be throughout a denunciation of vengeance.
The other similitude or metaphor is the most appropriate, and harmonizes better with the subject; for were not men to support their minds with vain confidence, they could never with so much audacity despise God’s word. Hence they are said to tie the wind in their wings; being unmindful of their own condition, they attempt as by means of the wind to fly; but when they proudly raise up themselves, they have no support but the wind. Let us now proceed —
TSK -> Hos 4:19
TSK: Hos 4:19 - -- wind : Jer 4:11, Jer 4:12, Jer 51:1; Zec 5:9-11
and : Hos 10:6; Isa 1:29, Isa 42:17; Jer 2:26, Jer 2:27, Jer 2:36, Jer 2:37, Jer 3:24, Jer 3:25, Jer 1...

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Barnes -> Hos 4:19
Barnes: Hos 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 Him...
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"Exo 19:4; Deu 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 resistless violence,"as it were on the wings of the whirlwind, Israel should be hurried by the mighty wrath of God into captivity in a distant land, bound up so that none should escape, but, when arrived there, dispersed here and there, as the chaff before the wind.
And they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices - They had sacrificed to the calves, to Baal, or to the sun, moon, stars, hoping aid from them rather than from God. When then they should see, in deed, that from those their sacrifices no good came to them, but evil only, they should be healthfully ashamed. So, in fact, in her captivity, did Israel learn to be ashamed of her idols; and so does GOd by healthful disappointment, make us ashamed of seeking out of Him, the good things, which He alone hath, and hath in store for them who love Him.
Poole -> Hos 4:19
Poole: Hos 4:19 - -- The whirlwind of wrath from God hath already seized this old adulteress, and carried some of her children away already, 2Ki 15:19,29 . Execution of ...
The whirlwind of wrath from God hath already seized this old adulteress, and carried some of her children away already, 2Ki 15:19,29 . Execution of judgment is already begun, and therefore, O Judah, keep distance from Ephraim.
They shall be ashamed greatly confounded and disappointed of their hopes: as thou, O Judah, wouldst prevent this shame, flee the society of these idolaters.
Because of their sacrifices what they made their confidence shall be their shame, their own idols cannot help them. but their idolatry shall surely undo them. Their idols which they worshipped and depended on shall be their shame and confusion, for thy God, O Judah, hath cursed such people. Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols , Psa 97:7 . If Israel do, yet, O Judah, do not thou so.
Haydock -> Hos 4:19
Wings. They shall be quickly removed hence. (Calmet)
Gill -> Hos 4:19
Gill: Hos 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; me...
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, David Kimchi, Abarbinel, and Abendana, render it "she", that is, Israel, "hath bound up the wind in her wings" b; meaning that they had laboured in vain in their idolatrous worship; and it was all one as if a than should attempt to gather the wind, and bind it up in the skirts of his garment, and when he opens them there is nothing to be found: and to this sense is the Targum,
"the works of their great men are not right, as it is impossible to bind the wind in a wing;''
referring to the sins of their rulers, as before: or rather the sense is, the wind shall get into the loose skirts of the garments of, he Israelites, which shall be as a sail to it, as Schmidt observes, and shall carry them into distant lands; which falls in with the first sense of the words, and is best:
and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices: they of the ten tribes, the people of Israel; or their shields, their rulers, as Aben Ezra, shall be filled with shame, being disappointed of the help they expected from their idols, to whom they offered sacrifices; and the more, inasmuch as they will find that these idolatrous sacrifices are the cause of their ruin and destruction. The Targum is,
"because of the altars of their idols;''
and so the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, "because of their altars".

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NET Notes -> Hos 4:19
NET Notes: Hos 4:19 Heb “their altars” (so NAB, NRSV) or “their sacrifices” (so KJV, NASB, NIV). Here זִבְחו...
Geneva Bible -> Hos 4:19
Geneva Bible: Hos 4:19 The wind hath ( y ) bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
( y ) To carry them suddenly away.

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TSK Synopsis -> Hos 4:1-19
TSK Synopsis: Hos 4:1-19 - --1 God denounces judgments on Israel, for their aggravated impieties and iniquities.12 He exposes the ignorance and wickedness of the priests, and prof...
MHCC -> Hos 4:12-19
MHCC: Hos 4:12-19 - --The people consulted images, and not the Divine word. This would lead to disorder and sin. Thus men prepare scourges for themselves, and vice is sprea...
Matthew Henry -> Hos 4:12-19
Matthew Henry: Hos 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. Spiri...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Hos 4:18-19
Keil-Delitzsch: Hos 4:18-19 - --
"Their drinking has degenerated; whoring they have committed whoredom; their shields have loved, loved shame. Hos 4:19. The wind has wrapt it up i...
Constable: Hos 4:1--6:4 - --IV. The third series of messages on judgment and restoration: widespread guilt 4:1--6:3
The remaining messages t...

Constable: Hos 4:1--5:15 - --A. The judgment oracles chs. 4-5
Chapters 4 and 5 contain more messages of judgment. Chapter 4 focuses o...

Constable: Hos 4:1-19 - --1. Yahweh's case against Israel ch. 4
This chapter exposes Israel's sins more particularly than ...
