Hosea 5:14 BSB — MannaFest

Hosea 5:14

For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.

BSB

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ASV

For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.

KJV

For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Hosea 5:14 (420)

"For I am like a lioness of Ephraim, and like a lion's cub to the house of Judah." LXX: "For I am like a panther to Ephraim, and like a lion in the house of Judah." When they go to Assyria and send to the avenging or the revenger king, who will not be able to heal them; nor to undo the bound chain, I will show that with me opposing, all human help is vain: for I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion's whelp to the house of Judah.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Note, If less judgments prevail not to do their work, it may be expected that God will send greater. Christ is sometimes a lion of the tribe of Judah, here he is a lion against that tribe. See what God will do to a people that are secure in sin: Even I will tear.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion - He who would thus strengthen himself by Outward help against God’s chastisements, challenges, as it were, the Almighty to a trial of strength. So then God, unwilling to abandon him to himself, changes His dealings, and , “He who had heretofore, in His judgments, seemed but as a tender moth or a weak worm,” now shows forth His resistless power, imaged by His creatures in whom the quality of power is most seen.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
אָנֹכִ֤י	'a.no.Khi	I	H595 →
כַשַּׁ֙חַל֙	kha.Sha.chal	[will be] like <the> lion	H7826 →
לְאֶפְרַ֔יִם	le.'ef.Ra.yim	to Ephraim	H669 →
וְכַכְּפִ֖יר	ve.kha.ke.Fir	and like <the> young lion	H3715 →
לְבֵ֣ית	le.Veit	to [the] house of	H1004 →
יְהוּדָ֑ה	ye.hu.Dah	Judah	H3063 →
אֲנִ֨י	'a.Ni	I	H589 →
אֲנִ֤י	'a.Ni	I	H589 →
אֶטְרֹף֙	'et.Rof	I will tear to pieces	H2963 →
וְאֵלֵ֔ךְ	ve.'e.Lekh	and I may go	H1980 →
אֶשָּׂ֖א	'e.Sa'	I will carry off	H5375 →
וְאֵ֥ין	ve.'Ein	and there not	H369 →
מַצִּֽיל׃	ma.Tzil	[will be] a deliverer	H5337 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 50:22
Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
leads to
- Job 8:13
  Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
- Psalms 9:17
  The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.
- Hosea 4:6
  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget…
- Psalms 7:2
  or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
- Deuteronomy 32:18
  You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
Through
Psalms 7:2
or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
leads to
- Psalms 50:22
  Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
- Isaiah 38:13
  I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
- 2 Timothy 4:17
  But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of…

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Hosea

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Hosea