Hosea 7:14

14 Zij roepen ook niet tot Mij met hun hart, wanneer zij huilen op hun legers; om koren en most verzamelen zij zich, maar zij wederstreven tegen Mij.

Hosea 7:14 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 7:14

And they have not cried unto me with their heart
In their distress, indeed, they cried unto the Lord, and said they repented of their sins, and promised reformation, and made a show of worshipping God; as invocation is sometimes put for the whole worship of God; but then this was not heartily, but hypocritically; their hearts and their mouths did not go together, and therefore was not reckoned prayer; nothing but howling, as follows: when they howled upon their beds;
lying sick or wounded there; or, as some, in their idol temples, those beds of adultery, where they pretended to worship God by them, and to pray to him through them; but such idolatrous prayers were no better than the howlings of clogs to him; even though they expressed outwardly their cries with great vehemency, as the word used denotes, having one letter more in it than common: they assemble themselves for corn and wine:
either at their banquets, to feast upon them, as Aben Ezra; or to the markets, to buy them, as Kimchi suggests; or rather to their idol temples, to deprecate a famine, and to pray for rain and fruitful seasons; or if they gather together to pray to the Lord, it is only for carnal and worldly things; they only seek themselves, and their own interest, and not the glory of God, and ask for these things, to consume them on their lust. The Septuagint version is, "for corn and wine they were cut", or cut themselves, as Baal's priests did, when they cried to him, ( 1 Kings 18:28 ) ; and Theodoret here observes, that they performed the Heathen rites, and in idol temples made incisions on their bodies: [and] they rebel against me:
not only flee from him transgress his laws but cast off all allegiance to him and take up arms, and commit hostilities against him. The Targum joins this with the preceding clause,

``because of the multitude of corn and wine which they have gathered they have rebelled against my word;''

and to the same sense Jarchi; thus, Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked.

Hosea 7:14 In-Context

12 Wanneer zij zullen henengaan, zal Ik Mijn net over hen uitspreiden, Ik zal ze als vogelen des hemels doen nederdalen. Ik zal ze tuchtigen, gelijk gehoord is in hun vergadering.

13 Wee hen, want zij zijn van Mij afgezworven; verstoring over hen, want zij hebben tegen Mij overtreden! Ik zou hen wel verlossen, maar zij spreken leugenen tegen Mij.

14 Zij roepen ook niet tot Mij met hun hart, wanneer zij huilen op hun legers; om koren en most verzamelen zij zich, maar zij wederstreven tegen Mij.

15 Ik heb hen wel getuchtigd, en hunlieder armen gesterkt; maar zij denken kwaad tegen Mij.

16 Zij keren zich, maar niet tot den Allerhoogste, zij zijn als een bedrieglijke boog; hun vorsten vallen door het zwaard; vanwege de gramschap hunner tong; dat is hunlieder bespotting in Egypteland.