Hosea 9:13

"Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!"

Key Reflection

In this passage, God emphasizes the severity of judgment by declaring that even if the Israelites were to have children, He would still bring bereavement and leave no men behind. The woe pronounced on them when God departs underscores that His absence is the ultimate source of their suffering and misery.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place -Or (better) “as I saw (her) toward Tyre,” or “as I saw as to Tyre.” Ephraim stretched out, in her dependent tribes, “toward” or “to” Tyre itself. Like to Tyrus she was, “in her riches, her glory, her pleasantness, her strength, her pride,” and in the end, her fall. The picture is that of a fair tree, not chance-sown, but “planted” carefully by hand in a pleasant place. Beauty and strength were blended in her.

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