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“Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor. See also: Hosea 9:8 Micah 3:9 Habakkuk 1:15-17The rebels are deep in slaughter, but I discipline all of them. See also: Hosea 9:15 Isaiah 29:15 Hosea 6:9I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled. See also: Amos 3:2 Hebrews 4:13 Revelation 3:15Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God, for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know the LORD. See also: Hosea 4:12 1 John 2:3-4 Hosea 4:1The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them. See also: Hosea 7:10 Luke 19:22 Proverbs 24:16They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD, but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them. See also: Proverbs 1:28 John 7:34 Micah 6:6-7They are unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields. See also: Hosea 6:7 Ezekiel 12:28 Psalms 144:7“Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin! See also: Hosea 4:15 Joel 2:1 Hosea 9:9Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be. See also: Zechariah 1:6 Hosea 9:11-17 Isaiah 46:10The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water. See also: Deuteronomy 19:14 Psalms 93:3-4 Psalms 32:6Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment, because he is intent in his pursuit of idols. See also: Micah 6:16 Deuteronomy 28:33 1 Kings 12:26-33Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness. See also: Isaiah 51:8 Job 13:28 Jonah 4:7“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to King Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound. See also: Hosea 7:11 Jeremiah 30:12 Hosea 10:6For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver. See also: Psalms 7:2 Micah 5:8 Psalms 50:22I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.” See also: Isaiah 26:16 Jeremiah 29:12-14 Psalms 78:34

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)12 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

Introduction to the chapter

Ver 1. Of priests. What is said of priests in this prophecy is chiefly understood of the priests of the kingdom of Israel; who were not true priests of the race of Aaron, but served the calves at Bethel and Dan. Ch. --- They had the name of priests, and pretended to act as such. 3 K. xii. W.

--- There were some apostates among them. C. iv. 6. But they lost all authority.

--- To them. Lit.

"to the watch:" speculationi. Heb. "at Maspha," (H.) in Galaad, where a profane altar was erected. C. vi. 8. C.

Hosea 5:2

Ver. 2. Depth, or pits of fire, where victims were sometimes thrown. Iphigen.

Grot. --- By substituting th for t, we might read, "they have dug pits to take them." C. ix. 9. Jos. xxiii 13. C.

--- Idolatry leads to the abyss. H.

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Hosea 5:4

Ver. 4. Known. Fornication had darkened their intellect. C.

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Hosea 5:5

Ver. 5. Answer. Sept. "be humbled." It appears openly, so as to deserve condemnation. H.

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Hosea 5:6

Ver. 6. Them. He will receive their victims no longer. Is. i. 11. C. --- In vain do they expect to escape by this appearance of sanctity, while they continue in sin. H.

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Hosea 5:7

Ver. 7. Strangers. That is, aliens from God: and therefore they are threatened with speedy destruction. Ch. --- Their offspring is rebellious, and deserves no longer to be called my people.

C. i. 9. --- Month. Every month the Assyrians shall come upon them; (Chal. S.

Jer.) or, in the space of one month, they shall perish. C. --- Sept. "the mildew shall eat them and their portions."

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Hosea 5:8

Ver. 8. Back. Bethel lay northwest of Benjamin. The two tribes would hear the distress of Israel, that they might beware and avoid the like misconduct. C. ---

The captivity is here described. W.

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Hosea 5:9

Ver. 9. That. Lit. "faith," (H.) that my word shall come to pass.

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Hosea 5:10

Ver. 10. Bound. This was a capital crime, under Numa, and forbidden. Deut. xix.

14. C. --- Juda hoped to seize what was abandoned. S. Jer. --- They deferred doing penance, and removed the boundaries set by their fathers, (Theod. C.) the virtuous patriarchs, whom they would not imitate.

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Hosea 5:11

Ver. 11. Oppression. Lit. "calumny." H. Is. lii. 4. --- The Assyrians had no just reason for attacking Israel, though their crimes called for punishment (C.) from God. H.

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Hosea 5:13

Ver. 13. Avenging. Heb. and Sept. Jareb, (S. Jer.) which some explain of the king of Egypt; others understand the Assyrian; (C. x. 6.) while most suppose that Ephraim applied to Phul, and Juda sent to a protecting king, Theglathphalassar. 4 K. xvi. 7. and xvii. 4. C.

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Hosea 5:14

Ver. 14. Lioness. Heb. and Sept. "panther." H. --- The Assyrians, instead of assisting, proved the ruin of both kingdoms.

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Hosea 5:15

Ver. 15. Place; to heaven. I will abandon my temple. C. --- Face: "they will seek the absent."

S. Jer.

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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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