Oseas 10:8

8 Y los santuarios paganos de Avén,
donde Israel pecaba, se derrumbarán.
Alrededor de sus altares crecerán espinos y cardos.
Suplicarán a los montes: «¡Entiérrennos!»
y rogarán a las colinas: «¡Caigan sobre nosotros!».

Oseas 10:8 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 10:8

The high places also of Aven
Bethel, which is not only as before called Bethaven, the house of iniquity; but Aven, iniquity itself; the high places of it were the temple and altars built there for idolatrous service, which were usually set on hills and mountains: the sin of Israel shall be destroyed;
that is, which high places are the sin of Israel, the occasion of sin unto them; and where they committed sin, the sin of idolatry, in worshipping the calves; these should be thrown down, demolished, and no longer used: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars;
lying in ruins, these shall grow upon them, the people and priests being carried captive that used to sacrifice upon them; but now they shall lie deserted by them, being destroyed by the enemy: and they shall say to the mountains, cover us; and to the hills, fall
on us;
not that the high places and altars shall say so in a figurative sense, according to R. Moses in Aben Ezra; but, as Japhet, they that worshipped there, the priests and people of Samaria, Bethaven, and even of all Israel, because of their great distress; and, as persons in the utmost consternation, and in despair, and confounded, and ashamed, shall call to the mountains and hills where they have been guilty of idolatry to hide and cover them from the wrath of God; see ( Luke 23:30 ) ( Revelation 6:16 ) .

Oseas 10:8 In-Context

6 Este ídolo será llevado a Asiria,
un regalo para el gran rey.
Se burlarán de Efraín e Israel será avergonzado
porque confiaron en ese ídolo.

7 Samaria y su rey serán arrancados;
flotarán a la deriva como un madero sobre las olas del mar.

8 Y los santuarios paganos de Avén,
donde Israel pecaba, se derrumbarán.
Alrededor de sus altares crecerán espinos y cardos.
Suplicarán a los montes: «¡Entiérrennos!»
y rogarán a las colinas: «¡Caigan sobre nosotros!».

9 Dice el Señor
: «¡Oh Israel, desde los tiempos de Guibeá,
hay tan solo pecado y más pecado!
No has mejorado en absoluto.
¿Acaso no fue justo que los hombres perversos de Guibeá fueran atacados?

10 Ahora, cuando concuerde con mis planes,
también a ustedes los atacaré.
Llamaré a los ejércitos de las naciones
para castigarlos por sus múltiples pecados.