Hosea 8:1 BSB — MannaFest

Hosea 8:1

Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

BSB

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ASV

Set the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle he cometh against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

KJV

Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Hosea 8:1-4 (420)

"Let the trumpet be in your throat, like an eagle over the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and violated my law." LXX: "In their bosom they are like the earth, like an eagle over the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and acted wickedly against my law." This which we have interpreted as "let the trumpet be in your throat," is what is written in Hebrew. Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion have similarly translated it as Alechchac Sophar.

The record, by era

The Reformation1 voice

John Calvin

1509–1564

Commentaries (1554)

I indeed allow, that the Prophet has spoken already, in two places, of the kingdom of Judah, but as it were in passing. He has, it is true, introduced some reproofs and threatening, but so that the distinction was quite clear; and we see that he now goes to the kingdom of Judah, but in the second verse, he names Israel, and yet continues his discourse.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Set the trumpet to thy mouth,.... Or, "the trumpet to the roof of thy mouth" (t); a concise expression denoting haste, and the vehemence of the passions speaking; they are either the words of the Lord to the prophet, as the Targum, "O prophet, cry with thy throat as with a trumpet, saying;'' Aben Ezra take them to be the words of the Lord the prophet, and the sense agrees with Isa 58:

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

The trumpet to thy mouth! - So God bids the prophet Isaiah, “Cry aloud, spare not, llft up thy voice like a trumpet” Isa 58:1. The prophets, as watchmen, were set by God to give notice of His coming judgments Eze 33:3; Amo 3:6. As the sound of a war-trumpet would startle a sleeping people, so would God have the prophet’s warning burst upon their sleep of sin.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
חִכְּךָ֣	chi.ke.Kha	mouth your	H2441 →
שֹׁפָ֔ר	sho.Far	a horn	H7782 →
כַּנֶּ֖שֶׁר	ka.Ne.sher	like <the> eagle	H5404 →
עַל־	'al-	over	H5921 →
בֵּ֣ית	beit	[the] house of	H1004 →
יְהוָ֑ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
יַ֚עַן	Ya.'an	because	H3282 →
עָבְר֣וּ	'a.ve.Ru	they have transgressed	H5674 →
בְרִיתִ֔י	ve.ri.Ti	covenant my	H1285 →
וְעַל־	ve.'al-	and on	H5921 →
תּוֹרָתִ֖י	to.ra.Ti	law my	H8451 →
פָּשָֽׁעוּ׃	pa.Sha.'u	they have rebelled	H6586 →

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
Deuteronomy 28:49
The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
leads to
- Lamentations 4:19
  Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 49:22
  Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s mighty men will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
- Jeremiah 48:40
  For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, an eagle swoops down and spreads his wings against Moab.
Through
Hosea 6:7
But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
leads to
- Genesis 3:11
  “Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
- Hosea 5:7
  They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.
Through
Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!
leads to
- Isaiah 19:1
  This is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will…
- Isaiah 66:15
  For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.
- Isaiah 5:28
  Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.

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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