Oseas 7:7

7 Como un horno ardiente,
consumen a sus líderes.
Matan a sus reyes uno tras otro,
y nadie clama a mí en busca de ayuda.

Oseas 7:7 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 7:7

They are all hot as an oven
Eager upon their idolatry, or burning in their unclean desires after other men's wives; or rather raging and furious, hot with anger and wrath against their rulers and governors, breathing out slaughter and death unto them: and have devoured their judges;
that stood in the way of their lusts, reproved them for them, and restrained them from them; or were on the side of the king they conspired against, and were determined to depose and slay: all their kings have fallen;
either into sin, the sin of idolatry particularly, as all from Jeroboam the first did, down to Hoshea the last; or they fell into calamities, or by the sword of one another, as did most of them; so Zachariah by Shallum, Shallum by Menahem, Pekahiah by Pekah, and Pekah by Hoshea; see ( 2 Kings 15:1-38 ) . So the Targum,

``all their kings are slain:''

[there is] none among them that calleth unto me;
either among the kings, when their lives were in danger from conspirators; or none among the people, when their land was in distress, either by civil wars among themselves, or by a foreign enemy; such was their stupidity, and to such a height was irreligion come to among them!

Oseas 7:7 In-Context

5 Durante una fiesta del rey, los príncipes se emborrachan con vino,
y se entregan a la juerga con los que se burlan de ellos.

6 Sus corazones son como un horno
recalentado con intriga.
Sus maquinaciones humean
durante la noche
y por la mañana estallan en un incendio violento.

7 Como un horno ardiente,
consumen a sus líderes.
Matan a sus reyes uno tras otro,
y nadie clama a mí en busca de ayuda.

8 »El pueblo de Israel se mezcla con paganos de otras naciones,
¡y se vuelven tan inútiles como un pastel a medio cocer!

9 El rendir culto a dioses ajenos consume sus fuerzas,
pero ellos ni cuenta se dan.
Su cabello se ha encanecido
pero no se dan cuenta de que están viejos y débiles.