Hosea 6:5 BSB — MannaFest

Hosea 6:5

Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.

BSB

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ASV

Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

KJV

Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

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Commentary

5 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets - Since they despised God’s gentler warnings and measures, He used severer. “He hewed” them, He says, as men hew stones out of the quarry, and with hard blows and sharp instruments overcome the hardness of the stone which they have to work. Their piety and goodness were light and unsubstantial as a summer cloud; their stony hearts were harder than the material stone.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Hewed them - I have severely, and unweariedly reproved, and threatened them. By thy words - As I did by word foretel, so I did effect in due time. Thy judgments - The punishments threatened, which fell upon this people, did so fully answer the prediction that every one might see them clear as the light, and as constantly executed as the morning.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

What their conduct was towards God: Their goodness, or kindness, was as the morning cloud. Some understand it of their kindness to themselves and their own souls, in their repentance; it is indeed mercy to ourselves to repent of our sins, but they soon retracted that kindness to themselves, undid it again, and wronged their own souls as much as ever.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The prophet turns to him and acknowledges, Thy judgments are as the light that goes forth, evidently just and righteous. Note, Though sinners be not reclaimed by the pains that ministers take with them, yet thereby God will be justified when he speaks and clear when he judges.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2134: “The Rough Hewer” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1890)

VERY simple is the way of salvation—very plain is the road home. The chapter begins with it—"Come, and let us return unto the Lord." By going away from the Lord we have lost our privileges, have become wounded and have lost ourselves. To find all these things again we must go back to the Lord, from Whom we have wandered. We must cry with the repenting prodigal, "I will arise and go to my Father"—and if we at once begin to carry out the resolve—the way home is not far to seek.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עַל־	'al-	there-	H5921 →
כֵּ֗ן	Ken	-fore	H3651 →
חָצַ֙בְתִּי֙	cha.Tzav.ti	I will cut [them] in pieces	H2672 →
בַּנְּבִיאִ֔ים	ba.ne.vi.'Im	by the prophets	H5030 →
הֲרַגְתִּ֖ים	ha.rag.Tim	I will kill them	H2026 →
בְּאִמְרֵי־	be.'im.rei-	by [the] words of	H561 →
פִ֑י	Fi	mouth my	H6310 →
וּמִשְׁפָּטֶ֖יךָ	u.mish.pa.Tei.kha	and judgments your	H4941 →
א֥וֹר	'or	[is] light	H216 →
יֵצֵֽא׃	ye.Tze'	[which] it goes forth	H3318 →

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

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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
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
leads to
- Jeremiah 23:29
  “Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 55:11
  so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
- Ephesians 6:17
  And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
- Psalms 119:130
  The unfolding of Your words gives light; it informs the simple.
- 1 Peter 1:23
  For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
Through
Jeremiah 1:10
See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.”
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 10:4–5
  The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Jeremiah 23:29
“Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”
leads to
- Hebrews 4:12
  For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- Jeremiah 5:14
  Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

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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