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When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside. See also: Hosea 7:13 Micah 7:3-7 Hosea 6:4They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face. See also: Luke 12:2 Amos 8:7 Jeremiah 2:19They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. See also: Romans 1:32 Micah 7:3 Jeremiah 28:1-4They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened. See also: Jeremiah 9:2 Jeremiah 5:7-8 James 4:4On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers. See also: 1 Peter 4:3-4 Isaiah 28:1 Genesis 40:20For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their anger smolders all night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire. See also: Psalms 10:8-9 Micah 2:1 Proverbs 4:16They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me. See also: 2 Kings 15:30 2 Kings 15:10 2 Kings 15:25Ephraim mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over. See also: Psalms 106:35 Nehemiah 13:23-25 Ezra 9:12Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it. See also: Hosea 8:7 Isaiah 42:22-25 2 Kings 13:3-7The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to the LORD their God, nor sought him, for all this. See also: Hosea 5:5 Isaiah 9:13 Amos 4:6-13“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria. See also: Hosea 12:1 Hosea 5:13 Hosea 4:11When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard. See also: Ezekiel 12:13 Deuteronomy 28:15-68 Deuteronomy 29:22-28Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me. See also: Hosea 9:12 Lamentations 5:16 Matthew 23:13-29They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me. See also: Job 35:9-10 James 4:3 Jeremiah 3:10Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me. See also: Nahum 1:9 Psalms 94:12 2 Kings 13:23They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt. See also: Psalms 78:57 Hosea 9:3 Ezekiel 23:32

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)16 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 7:1

Ver. 1. Israel. God divided the kingdom, that by this chastisement the people might be converted. But Jeroboam set up calves, and caused them to grow worse. W. --- How often did God send his prophets to reclaim them! --- Without.

Most of the kings were of this stamp, while foreign nations invaded the land.

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Hosea 7:2

Ver. 2. Face. I do not search (C.) into their past lives; they sin publicly, and without ceasing. I have been too indulgent. H.

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Hosea 7:3

Ver. 3. Glad, &c. To please Jeroboam and their other kings, they have given themselves up to the worship of idols, which are mere falsehood and lies. Ch.

--- We do not find one good king of Israel. C. --- But Jeroboam principally caused Israel to sin. H. --- His infernal policy changed the religion of his subjects.

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Hosea 7:4

Ver. 4. Leaven. Jeroboam invited the people simply to a feast, and used no violence to make them adopt his novelties. But they soon prevailed, and brought on ruin. The cake, or whole nation, was burnt, (v. 8.) as well as the princes. v. 7. C.

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Hosea 7:5

Ver. 5. Princes. The chief men joined in the schism and idolatry. W. --- Mad, with drinking at the king's coronation, or at his coming to the crown. C. ---

Bacchus presents three cups to the wise; the fourth is the cup of petulance, the fifth of shouts, the sixth of debauchery, &c. Athen.

Dipsc. ii. 1. Eccli. xxxi. 38. --- Scorners. Sept. "pestilent people," who turn religion and piety to ridicule. Instead of repressing them, the king admits them to favour.

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Hosea 7:6

Ver. 6. Them. Jeroboam seduces the subjects of the house of David, by indulging the passions of the great and small. He may then sleep; the poison gains ground. C. --- But soon his own family will feel the direful effects of his policy. H.

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Hosea 7:7

Ver. 7. Judges, or rulers. Idolatry proved fatal to all. v. 3.

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Hosea 7:8

Ver. 8. Mixed, like oil and flour. Heb. --- Ashes. Thin cakes (C.) of this kind are used by the poor, in Spain, (Sanct.) and by the Arabs. Thevenot. Levant. xxxii.

--- Turned. There was no time allowed by the enemy, who came and took the Israelites away. C. -- They became like other nations, and would not repent. W.

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Hosea 7:9

Ver. 9. Strangers: kings of Assyria, Damascus, &c. --- Hairs. He is grown old in misery, and yet is insensible of it, and sees not that he will shortly cease to be a people. Is. vii. 8.

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Hosea 7:10

Ver. 10. Humbled. Heb. "answer." C. v. 5. Pride is visible on his face, though he be so much reduced. C. --- For all these sins Israel shall be severely punished.

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Hosea 7:11

Ver. 11. Decoyed. Heb. "stupid." C. iv. 11. The dove is the only bird which is not grieved at the loss of its young. S. Jer. --- It returns to the same nest, though repeatedly robbed, forgetting past dangers. Theod. --- Thus Israel is not reclaimed, though idolatry has so often proved its ruin. ---

Egypt. Jeroboam had returned thither, and at his return brought about a division of the kingdom.

3 K. xi. 40. Osee, the last king, applied to Sua, and this provoked the Assyrians to destroy the kingdom. They pretended that it was tributary to them, after Phul had been invited to assist Manahem for a thousand talents. 4 K. xv. 19.

and xvii. 4. Thus was a worldly policy confounded.

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Hosea 7:12

Ver. 12. Heard the menaces of Moses, (Deut. xxvii.) and of the prophets. 4 K.

xxvii. 13. C. ---

Sept. "I will instruct (or chastise) them by the hearing of their misery," (H.) when it shall become the subject of conversation throughout the world.

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Hosea 7:13

Ver. 13. Lies, attributing their deliverance to the golden calf, (3 K. xii. 28. C. Ex.

xxxii. 8. M.) and always denying my justice and power.

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Hosea 7:14

Ver. 14. Thought: "ruminated." H. --- Heb. "assembled, or been afraid." Sept.

"they were cut,"

(C.) in honour of idols, hoping to avert the famine. S. Cyr.

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Hosea 7:15

Ver. 15. Arms. I gave them my laws and power to resist the enemy. M.

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Hosea 7:16

Ver. 16. Returned, imitating Apis, the folly of Egypt. They have repeatedly followed idols in Egypt, and in the desert, under Jeroboam, Achab, Jehu, &c.

--- Deceitful. Sept. "bent."

Theodoret reads, "unbent." It never hits the mark, (C.) but wounds the person who uses it. S. Jer.

--- Derision. The Egyptians laugh at them; (C.) or thus they acted heretofore, in Egypt. Chal.

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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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