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Hosea 4:19

in Hosea 4

The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

The wind hath wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be put to shame because of their sacrifices.

KJV

The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

This verse in Hosea 4

Commentary

8 notes on this verse
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.

This site's exposition

Ephraim is joined to idols

on Hosea 4:17-19

Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone, one of Scripture's most severe sentences, and the older writers read it as judicial abandonment rather than simple neglect, a people given over to the course they insisted on. Their drink grown sour, their rulers loving shame more than glory, the chapter closes with the wind binding the nation up in its own wings, carried off by the very forces it courted, and shame following the sacrifices offered to gods that could not save. The chapter's whole indictment, priest and people alike, sets up chapter 5's declaration that the same charge now falls on the house of the king.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Hosea 4:17-19 · Written before 420.

proposed

"his spirit is bound up in their wings, and they shall be confounded because of their sacrifices." LXX: "a whirlwind of spirit will whistle in his wings, and they will be confounded from their altars." The unhappy people received the worship of idols, whose unclean spirits bound Israel in their wings and do not allow it to fly freely. Therefore they shall be confounded in their sacrifices, and they shall receive disgrace for their confusion.

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Ishodad of Merv

COMMENTARY ON HOSEA · Written before 850.

proposed

The words "I will not visit your daughters when they prostitute themselves," that is, when a woman is accused of being adulterous and there is no witness, "she will make," Scripture says, "her offering of barley flour and will not pour any oil or incense." …

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And then they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices, ashamed of their sin in offering sacrifice to idols, ashamed of their folly in putting themselves to such an expense upon gods that have no power to help them, and thereby making that God their enemy who has almighty power to destroy them. Note, There are sacrifices that men will one day be ashamed of.
The wind hath bound her up in her wings,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Israel shall be swept away from her land (Ho 4:16) suddenly and violently as if by "the wings of the wind" (Ps 18:10; Jer 4:11, 12). ashamed . . . of their sacrifices--disappointed to their shame in their hope of help through their sacrifices to idols.
1 more voice on this verse

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

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.

The words behind it

6 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • צָרַ֥רit has wrapped

    tzararH6887

  • ר֛וּחַa wind

    ruachH7307378 times

  • אוֹתָ֖הּ<obj.> it

    ʾotahH85310935 times

  • בִּכְנָפֶ֑יהָin wings its

    bikhnafeihaH3671

  • וְיֵבֹ֖שׁוּso they may be ashamed

    veyevoshuH954127 times

  • מִזִּבְחוֹתָֽם סfrom sacrifices their

    mizivchotamH2077162 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 17:13

    O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of…

    it leads to

    • Revelation 7:17

      For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”

    • John 4:14

      But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

    • John 7:37–38

      On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

    • John 4:10

      Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

    • Revelation 22:1

      Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

  • Through

    Isaiah 1:29

    Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 57:5

      who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

    • Isaiah 65:3

      to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,

  • Through

    Hosea 13:15

    Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 19:12

      But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.

Where this verse is studied

About Hosea

This page draws on 9 works. Open the list of works

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Ishodad of Merv, COMMENTARY ON HOSEA; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Hosea 4:17-19; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.