Osea 10:4

4 Han proferite delle parole, giurando falsamente, facendo patto; perciò, il giudicio germoglierà come tosco sopra i solchi dei campi.

Osea 10:4 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 10:4

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant,
&c.] Those are other crimes they were guilty of, for which the wrath of God could not be awarded from them by a king, if they had one, or by any other. They had used vain and idle words in their common talk and conversation; and lying and deceitful ones to one another in trade and commerce, in contracts and promises; and so had deceived and overreached one another: they had belched out many "oaths of vanity" {u}: or vain oaths and curses; their mouths had been full of cursing and bitterness; and they made covenants with God, and their king, and with other kings and princes, and with one another, and had not kept them; and now for these things God had a controversy with them: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field;
either the judgment of God, his wrath and vengeance for the above sins, rose up and spread itself in all their cities, towns, and villages; or rather the judgment and justice they pretended to execute, instead of being what it should have been, useful and beneficial to the people, like a wholesome herb, sprung up like hemlock, bitter and poisonous, and spread itself in all parts of the kingdom. Injustice is meant; see ( Amos 6:12 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 (awv twla) "execrationes vanitatis", Schmidt.

Osea 10:4 In-Context

2 Iddio ha diviso il lor cuore; ora saranno desolati; egli abbatterà i loro altari, guasterà le loro statue.

3 Perciocchè ora diranno: Noi non abbiamo alcun re, perchè non abbiamo temuto il Signore; ed anche: Che ci farebbe un re?

4 Han proferite delle parole, giurando falsamente, facendo patto; perciò, il giudicio germoglierà come tosco sopra i solchi dei campi.

5 Gli abitanti di Samaria saranno spaventati per le vitelle di Bet-aven; perciocchè il popolo del vitello farà cordoglio di esso; e i suoi Camari, che solevano festeggiar d’esso, faranno cordoglio della sua gloria; perciocchè si sarà dipartita da lui.

6 Ed egli stesso sarà portato in Assiria, per presente al re protettore; Efraim riceverà vergogna, e Israele sarà confuso del suo consiglio.