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Hear the LORD’s word, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. See also: Jeremiah 4:22 Micah 6:2 1 Corinthians 15:34There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed. See also: Hosea 6:9 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Jeremiah 6:7Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells in it will waste away, with all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die. See also: Zephaniah 1:3 Isaiah 24:4-12 Nahum 1:4“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest. See also: Deuteronomy 17:12 Hosea 4:17 Ezekiel 3:26You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother. See also: Jeremiah 15:8 Hosea 2:2 Galatians 4:26My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children. See also: Isaiah 5:13 Proverbs 19:2 Hosea 6:6As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame. See also: Hosea 13:6 Philippians 3:19 1 Samuel 2:30They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity. See also: Titus 1:11 Micah 3:11 Isaiah 56:11It will be like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds. See also: Jeremiah 5:31 Isaiah 24:2 Matthew 15:14They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned listening to the LORD. See also: Micah 6:14 Leviticus 26:26 Haggai 1:6Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding. See also: Proverbs 20:1 Luke 21:34 Isaiah 28:7My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God. See also: Jeremiah 2:27 Hosea 5:4 Habakkuk 2:19They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery. See also: Jeremiah 3:6 Isaiah 1:29 Ezekiel 6:13I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin. See also: Hosea 4:1 1 Corinthians 6:16 Ephesians 4:18“Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As the LORD lives.’ See also: Hosea 12:11 Hosea 9:15 Amos 4:4For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will the LORD feed them like a lamb in a meadow? See also: 1 Samuel 15:11 Jeremiah 5:6 Hosea 11:7Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone! See also: Psalms 81:12 Revelation 22:11 Hosea 13:2Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way. See also: Proverbs 30:15-16 Micah 3:11 Deuteronomy 32:32-33The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices. See also: Jeremiah 51:1 Isaiah 1:29 Jeremiah 4:11-12

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)18 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Hosea 4:1

Ver. 1. Israel. They are chiefly addressed, (Chal. S. Jer. C.) or what follows to v.

15, regards all. W. --- Judgment. Heb. "a trial." --- Mercy. The want of humanity and of practical knowledge is urged. C. --- The knowledge of God includes the observance of the commandments. 1 Jo. ii. 4.

W. --- This science alone is requisite. Jer. ix. 3. Is. v. 13. Blind leaders prove their own and other's ruin.

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Hosea 4:2

Ver. 2. Blood. The successors of Jeroboam II. were mostly murdered. C. ---

Incestuous marriages take place. H.

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Hosea 4:3

Ver. 3. Together. The waters shall be dried up, or infected. C. --- When the people are taken away, beasts will not long remain. Jer. ix. 10. Soph. i. 2. H.

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Hosea 4:4

Ver. 4. Judge, &c. As if he would say: It is in vain to strive with them, or reprove them, they are so obstinate in evil. Ch. --- Priest. Such must be slain. Deut. xvii.

12. C. --- Sept. "my people are like a priest contradicted," (H.) or degraded.

Theod.

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Hosea 4:5

Ver. 5. Prophet, both true and false. --- Night of tribulation. Heb. and Sept. "I have compared thy mother to the night."

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Hosea 4:6

Ver. 6. Silent. Sept. "like those who had," &c. --- Knowledge. Jeroboam I. had appointed unlawful priests, and some of the house of Aaron went over to him, and were excluded from officiating at Jerusalem, after the captivity. 1 K. xii. 31.

Ezec. xliv. 10. Knowledge is always expected of priests. Deut. xvii. 8. Mal. ii. 7.

Gratian. dist. 38. c. omnes. C. --- When the power of sacrificing is withdrawn, all spiritual functions cease, as sacrifice belongs properly to a priest.

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Hosea 4:7

Ver. 7. Me. A father rejoices in a numerous offspring. But my people take occasion to offend me the more they increase. C.

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Hosea 4:8

Ver. 8. Sins: victims. W. --- Iniquity; or "they seek for support in their propitiatory offerings,"

and lull the people asleep in their sins. The priests of the golden calf imitated the sacred rites of Moses. It would have been too difficult to make the people change altogether.

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Hosea 4:9

Ver. 9. Priest. They are equally dissolute, and shall meet the like punishment.

--- Devices, or thoughts. C. --- Cogitatio mali operis pænas luet. S. Jer.

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Hosea 4:10

Ver. 10. Ceased. Heb. "increased." They have no children living. C. --- Sept. "let them not succeed."

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Hosea 4:11

Ver. 11. Understanding. Lit. "heart." H. --- Some sins darken reason more than others; but none so much as spiritual fornication. W.

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Hosea 4:12

Ver. 12. Staff. It was customary to use this mode of divination, (Ezec. xxi. 21.) and likewise incense. v. 13. --- Oak. These terms are variously rendered as the trees and stones mentioned in Scripture, will probably never be ascertained.

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Hosea 4:14

Ver. 14. Visit. This is the most dreadful of God's judgments. He permits those who offend him to receive discontent from their own families. --- Effeminate, like the Galli, &c. (S. Jer.) and votaries of Priapus. 3 K. xv. 11. Heb. "the consecrated women." Sept. "initiated," to honour a lewd idol by prostitution. C.

--- Beaten. Sept. "adhere to a harlot. But thou, Israel, be not ignorant, and Juda go," &c. H.

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Hosea 4:15

Ver. 15. Offend. It was more culpable for Juda to commit idolatry (as they had the temple, &c.

of the true God) than for Israel, whom Jeroboam hindered from going to Jerusalem, after he had set up his golden calves. W. --- Galgal and Bethaven.

Places where idols were worshipped.

Bethel, which signifies the house of God, is called by the prophet Bethaven, that is the house of vanity, from Jeroboam's golden calf which was worshipped there. Ch. --- Galgal was on the confines of the two kingdoms, and always venerated by the Jews. Idols had been there in ancient times, and probably a sort of oracle. Judg. iii. 19. If Israel be thus abandoned, let not Juda imitate them. C. --- Lord. Profane not this sacred name by giving it to idols.

Theod. --- Use not this expression, since you do not worship me. S. Jer.

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Hosea 4:16

Ver. 16. Wanton. Sept. "stung," or rendered furious. Thus Israel gives way to ungovernable passions. The people shall be led into captivity, and have room to range about.

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Hosea 4:17

Ver. 17. Partaker. Heb. "tied to abominations." --- Alone. His case is desperate.

C. --- Sept. "he has placed stumbling-blocks for himself." H.

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Hosea 4:18

Ver. 18. Separated from that allowed to God's people. Deut. xii. 12. Heb.

"insipid," or spoiled.

Chal. "their princes have sought after banquets." Sept. "He has provoked ( surpassed) the Chanaanites." These two have not read as we do. --- They.

Heb. "their shields ( chiefs) have loved shame:" dissolute practices, or

"presents," which are disgraceful. C. --- Sept. "They have loved shame by her rage. (19) A whirlwind shall whistle in," &c. H.

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Hosea 4:19

Ver. 19. Wings. They shall be quickly removed hence. C.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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