Oséias 13:3

3 Por isso serão como a neblina da manhã,como o orvalho que bem cedo evapora,como palha que num redemoinho vai-se de uma eira,como a fumaça que sai pela chaminé.

Oséias 13:3 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud
Which, however promising it is, soon disappears when the sun is risen; signifying that the idolatrous Israelites, king, priests, and people, should be no more; their kingdom would cease, all their riches and wealth would depart from them, and they and their children be carried captive into a strange land: and as the early dew it passeth away;
as soon as the heat of the sun is felt, when the earth is left dry; so these people, though they seemed to be in great prosperity, and to be very fruitful in children, and in substance, and promised themselves much more; yet in a little time their land would become desolate, and they stripped of all that was dear and valuable to them these metaphors are used in ( Hosea 6:4 ) ; as the chaff [that] is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor;
signifying that these idolatrous people were like chaff, fight and empty, useless and unprofitable, fit for nothing but burning; and that they would be driven out of their own land through the Assyrian, that should come like a whirlwind with great three and power, as easily and as quickly as chaff is drove out of a threshing floor of corn with a strong blast of wind; see ( Psalms 1:5 ) ( Jeremiah 4:11-13 ) ( Daniel 2:35 ) ; and as the smoke out of the chimney;
which rises up in a pillar, and is so on dissipated by the wind, or dissolved into air; and is no sooner seen but it disappears; see ( Psalms 68:2 ) . All these similes show how easily, suddenly, and quickly, the destruction of this idolatrous nation would be brought about.

Oséias 13:3 In-Context

1 Quando Efraim falava, os homens tremiam;ele era exaltado em Israel.Mas tornou-se culpado da adoração a Baal e começou a morrer.

2 Agora eles pecam cada vez mais;com sua prata fazem ídolos de metal para si,imagens modeladas com muita inteligência,todas elas obras de artesãos.Dizem desse povo:“Eles oferecem sacrifício humanoe beijam os ídolos feitos em forma de bezerro”.

3 Por isso serão como a neblina da manhã,como o orvalho que bem cedo evapora,como palha que num redemoinho vai-se de uma eira,como a fumaça que sai pela chaminé.

4 “Mas eu sou o SENHOR, o seu Deus,desde a terra do Egito.Vocês não reconhecerão nenhum outro Deus além de mim,nenhum outro Salvador.

5 Eu cuidei de vocês no deserto,naquela terra de calor ardente.