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Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor. See also: Hosea 10:5Jeremiah 44:17Hosea 4:12The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her. See also: Hosea 2:9Haggai 1:9Joel 1:9-13They won’t dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria. See also: Ezekiel 4:13Hosea 8:13Leviticus 25:23They won’t pour out wine offerings to the LORD, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the LORD’s house. See also: Jeremiah 6:20Deuteronomy 26:14Hosea 8:13What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? See also: Isaiah 10:3Hosea 2:11Jeremiah 5:31For, behold, when they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents. See also: Hosea 10:8Isaiah 5:6Isaiah 7:23The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great. See also: Acts 26:24-25Micah 7:42 Kings 9:11A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God. See also: Hosea 5:1Ezekiel 3:17John 15:24They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins. See also: Hosea 10:9Judges 19:16Isaiah 31:6I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved. See also: Jeremiah 11:13Numbers 25:1-18Hosea 4:14As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception. See also: Deuteronomy 28:18Genesis 41:52Hosea 4:7Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them! See also: Hosea 7:13Hosea 9:16Deuteronomy 31:17I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer. See also: Ezekiel 26:1-21Amos 7:17Ezekiel 27:3Give them—LORD what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. See also: Luke 23:29Luke 21:231 Corinthians 7:26“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds, I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels. See also: Hosea 4:15Isaiah 1:23Hosea 12:11Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.” See also: Hosea 9:11-13Ezekiel 24:21Isaiah 5:24My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations. See also: Deuteronomy 28:64-65Hosea 7:13Zechariah 7:11-14
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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 9:1
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 1. Reward, or "present." The kings took the tithe. 1 K. viii. 15. Other infidel nations rejoice in their wealth. Israel ought not to do so; and, in punishment of idolatry, it shall be despoiled. After Jeroboam II. all went to ruin.
↑ 1Hosea 9:2
Ver. 2. Deceive. The grapes shall yield no wine. C. --- Spem mentita seges. Hor.
ii. ep. 2. and 3.
ode 1. and 16.)
↑ 2Hosea 9:3
Ver. 3. Egypt, through distress. C. viii. 13. S. Jer. v. 6. W. --- Sua afforded no protection, and the country proved a grave to those who retired thither. ---
Unclean. The people observed these prescriptions, though they neglected the more important duties. Only some pious souls, like Tobias, Daniel, &c.
refrained from such meats in exile. C. --- Ezechiel (iv. 9.) foreshewed this by his bread. S. Jer.
↑ 3Hosea 9:4
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 4. Wine. They shall be at a distance from the temple, and in a country where the wine will not be deemed pure. The Jews will drink none which they have not made; and they usually lift up the cup, and pour out a little in God's honour. This they could not do in Assyria, (C.) not having liberty to do all about the wine. --- Sacrifices. The Israelites had long neglected to offer any in the temple, (H.) though they had no hindrance. In exile, the fruits, &c. were all accounted unclean, like meats used in mourning, (C.) which defiled those who partook of them. Deut. xxvi.
14. Num. xix. 11. "The sacrifices of heretics are the bread of mourning. They offer them not to God, but to the dead, to wicked heresiarchs." S. Jer. --- Soul.
They have need enough of it. H.
--- "Let them gratify their appetite; I love not what is unclean." S. Jer.
↑ 4Hosea 9:5
Ver. 5. Lord, when he shall punish you. Is. xxxiv. 6. H. --- Israel did not go to the temple, but they kept the festivals and banquets in their own manner, the privation of which they would feel.
↑ 5Hosea 9:6
Ver. 6. Gather into the grave. Yet some shall escape. C. xi. 11. --- Silver, which they buried at the approach of the enemy, hoping to recover it when they should depart. The Arabs do so still, (C.) and the Indians likewise, that they may have something to support them in the next world!
Bernier. --- Bur. Heb. "thorns." C.
↑ 6Hosea 9:7
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 7. Mad. Israel shall promise itself all prosperity, not being inspired by God, but full of madness. W. --- There were many false prophets. The true ones were often accounted idols. 4 K.
ix. 11. Ezec. iii. 25. C. --- "What is said respecting Israel, in this prophet, must be understood of heretics, who being truly mad, utter falsehoods against God.
S. Jer. --- Sept. "and Israel shall be hurt like the prophet beside himself, the man having ( or hurried away by) the spirit." H.
↑ 7Hosea 9:8
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 8. My God. I am such; but the false prophets strive to seduce you. C. ---
Jeroboam ought to have restrained the people, and he did the reverse, setting up a calf at Bethel, which proved more ruinous than the crime of Gabaa, (Jud.
xix.) or the election of Saul. "In ancient records, I cannot find that any have divided the Church but those who were appointed by God, priests and prophets, that is watchmen." S. Jer. --- Indeed, almost all heresies owe their rise to the pride or lust of some who have been in high stations. --- Madness.
Heb. " and hatred in (marg. against) the," &c. Prot. H. --- Instead of standing up for the people, he provokes God.
↑ 8Hosea 9:9
Ver. 9. Sin. As they have imitated the citizens of Gabaa, they may expect a similar fate. C.
↑ 9Hosea 9:10
Ver. 10. Top. These are the best. H. --- The patriarchs were pleasing to God. He chose the Hebrews; but they began to worship Beelphegor or Adonis, even before the death of Moses.
This worship was most shameful. What will not passion do when the gods shew the example!
↑ 10Hosea 9:11
Ver. 11. Conception. Their children, in whom they glory, shall be destroyed (C.) in the very embryo. H.
↑ 11Hosea 9:12
Ver. 12. When. Sept. Th. "my flesh is taken from them," which Theodoret, Lyran, &c. explain of the incarnation; but Aquila, &c. agree with the Vulg. which is more natural. C.
↑ 12Hosea 9:13
Ver. 13. Tyre. The kingdom of Israel was no less proud. Ezec. xxvi. W. --- It was in the highest prosperity under Jeroboam II. Osee saw this and the subsequent overthrow. Tyre was a most populous and wealthy city. C. --- Other interpreters have, "a rock;" Sept. "a prey." The latter read d for r. S. Jer. H. --- The Vulg.
seems best. C. --- Tsor denotes, "Tyre and a rock." H.
↑ 13Hosea 9:14
Ver. 14. Children, as they have exposed them to the fury of the Assyrians, (C.) or to their idols.
Drus. --- The prophet appears to demand vengeance through zeal; but it is only a prediction. C.
↑ 14Hosea 9:15
Ver. 15. Galgal: "heaped together." H. --- When they erected profane altars here, I could spare them no longer. C. --- No more, so as to suffer them to pass unpunished. H. --- He afterwards restored them to favour. C. i. 10. and ii. 14. C.
--- At Galgal they rejected the Lord's spiritual and temporal dominion. M.
↑ 15Hosea 9:16
Ver. 16. Dried up. They are compared to a vine. C. x. 1. C.
↑ 16License: 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