Hosea 5:11

"The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water."

Key Reflection

In Hosea 5:11, the "princes of Judah" symbolize leaders who seek to unjustly expand their own power at the expense of others, much like removing a landmark to claim another's property. The Lord warns that He will pour out His wrath on them as surely and relentlessly as water pours from a broken dam, illustrating the severe consequences of such dishonesty and oppression.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment -Literally, “crushed in judgment.” Holy Scripture, elsewhere also, “combines” these same two words, rendered “oppressed” and “crushed,” in speaking of man’s oppression by man. Ephraim preferred man’s commands and laws to God’s; they obeyed man and set God at nought; therefore they should suffer at man’s hands, who, while he equally neglected God’s will, enforced his own.

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