the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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THE MESSAGE
Hosea 11:3
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It was I who taught Ephraim to walk,taking them by the hand,but they never knew that I healed them.
Yet I taught Efrayim to walk. I took them by his arms; But they didn't know that I healed them.
I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them.
Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them in My arms; But they did not know that I healed them.
It was I who taught Israel to walk, and I took them by the arms, but they did not understand that I had healed them.
Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk, Taking them in My arms [nurturing the young nation]; But they did not know that I healed them.
I ledde Ephraim also, as one shoulde beare them in his armes: but they knewe not that I healed them.
Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them in My arms; But they did not know that I healed them.
Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk;I took them in My arms;But they did not know that I healed them.
It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.
I took Israel by the arm and taught them to walk. But they would not admit that I was the one who had healed them.
"Yet it was I who taught Efrayim to walk; I took them by their arms. But they did not know that it was I who was healing them,
And I it was that taught Ephraim to walk,—He took them upon his arms,—but they knew not that I healed them.
"But I was the one who taught Ephraim to walk. I took the Israelites in my arms. I healed them, but they don't know that.
It was I who cared for Ephraim and took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them.
Yet I was the one who taught Israel to walk. I took my people up in my arms, but they did not acknowledge that I took care of them.
And I myself taught Ephraim to walk; I took them in my arms, but they did not know that I healed them.
I also taught Ephraim to go; He took them on His arms. But they did not know that I healed them.
Yet I taught Ephraim to walk; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
But I was guiding Ephraim's footsteps; I took them up in my arms, but they were not conscious that I was ready to make them well.
And I, I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
I taught Ephraim also to goe, taking them by their armes: but they knew not that I healed them.
I gaue to Ephraim one to leade him, who shoulde beare him in his armes: but they knew not that I healed them.
Yet I bound the feet of Ephraim, I took him on my arm; but they knew not that I healed them.
Yet I taught Ephraim to go; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; But they didn't know that I healed them.
And Y as a nursche of Effraym bare hem in myn armes, and thei wisten not, that Y kepte hem.
Yet I taught Ephraim to walk; He took them up in his arms; but they did not know that I healed them.
I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
Yet it was I who led Ephraim, I took them by the arm; but they did not acknowledge that I had healed them.
"I taught Ephraim to walk,Taking them by their arms; [fn] But they did not know that I healed them.
I myself taught Israel how to walk, leading him along by the hand. But he doesn't know or even care that it was I who took care of him.
Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk. I took them in My arms. But they did not know that I healed them.
Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them.
Yet, I, had taught Ephraim to walk, I used to take them upon mine arms, - But they acknowledged not that I had healed them.
And I was like a foster father to Ephraim, I carried them in my arms: and they knew not that I healed them.
Yet it was I who taught E'phraim to walk, I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them.
And I have caused Ephraim to go on foot, Taking them by their arms, And they have not known that I strengthened them.
I lerned Ephraim to go, and bare them in myne armes, but they regarded not me, that wolde haue helped them.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
taught: Exodus 19:4, Numbers 11:11, Numbers 11:12, Deuteronomy 1:31, Deuteronomy 8:2, Deuteronomy 32:10-12, Isaiah 46:3, Isaiah 63:9, Acts 13:18
I healed: Hosea 2:8, Hosea 7:1, Hosea 14:4, Exodus 15:26, Exodus 23:25, Isaiah 1:2, Isaiah 30:26, Jeremiah 8:22, Jeremiah 30:17
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 31:32 - in the
Cross-References
Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower that reaches Heaven. Let's make ourselves famous so we won't be scattered here and there across the Earth."
God took one look and said, "One people, one language; why, this is only a first step. No telling what they'll come up with next—they'll stop at nothing! Come, we'll go down and garble their speech so they won't understand each other." Then God scattered them from there all over the world. And they had to quit building the city. That's how it came to be called Babel, because there God turned their language into "babble." From there God scattered them all over the world.
When Peleg was thirty years old, he had Reu. After he had Reu, he lived 209 more years and had other sons and daughters.
The Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into the tar pits, but the rest escaped into the mountains. The four kings captured all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, all their food and equipment, and went on their way. They captured Lot, Abram's nephew who was living in Sodom at the time, taking everything he owned with them.
David emptied the city of its people and put them to slave labor using saws, picks, and axes, and making bricks. He did this to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and the whole army returned to Jerusalem.
I said to myself, "Let's go for it—experiment with pleasure, have a good time!" But there was nothing to it, nothing but smoke. What do I think of the fun-filled life? Insane! Inane! My verdict on the pursuit of happiness? Who needs it? With the help of a bottle of wine and all the wisdom I could muster, I tried my level best to penetrate the absurdity of life. I wanted to get a handle on anything useful we mortals might do during the years we spend on this earth.
"Well now, let me tell you what I'll do to my vineyard: I'll tear down its fence and let it go to ruin. I'll knock down the gate and let it be trampled. I'll turn it into a patch of weeds, untended, uncared for— thistles and thorns will take over. I'll give orders to the clouds: ‘Don't rain on that vineyard, ever!'"
Store up water for the siege. Shore up your defenses. Get down to basics: Work the clay and make bricks. Sorry. Too late. Enemy fire will burn you up. Swords will cut you to pieces. You'll be chewed up as if by locusts. Yes, as if by locusts—a fitting fate, for you yourselves are a locust plague. You've multiplied shops and shopkeepers— more buyers and sellers than stars in the sky! A plague of locusts, cleaning out the neighborhood and then flying off. Your bureaucrats are locusts, your brokers and bankers are locusts. Early on, they're all at your service, full of smiles and promises, But later when you return with questions or complaints, you'll find they've flown off and are nowhere to be found. King of Assyria! Your shepherd-leaders, in charge of caring for your people, Are busy doing everything else but. They're not doing their job, And your people are scattered and lost. There's no one to look after them. You're past the point of no return. Your wound is fatal. When the story of your fate gets out, the whole world will applaud and cry "Encore!" Your cruel evil has seeped into every nook and cranny of the world. Everyone has felt it and suffered.
And now I have a word for you who brashly announce, "Today—at the latest, tomorrow—we're off to such and such a city for the year. We're going to start a business and make a lot of money." You don't know the first thing about tomorrow. You're nothing but a wisp of fog, catching a brief bit of sun before disappearing. Instead, make it a habit to say, "If the Master wills it and we're still alive, we'll do this or that."
And a final word to you arrogant rich: Take some lessons in lament. You'll need buckets for the tears when the crash comes upon you. Your money is corrupt and your fine clothes stink. Your greedy luxuries are a cancer in your gut, destroying your life from within. You thought you were piling up wealth. What you've piled up is judgment.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I taught Ephraim also to go,.... All the tribes of Israel and Ephraim, or the ten tribes with the rest; these the Lord instructed in the way of his commandments, and taught them to walk therein; he his angel before them, to conduct them through the wilderness; yea, he himself went before them in the pillar of cloud by day, and in the pillar of fire by night, to which history this seems to refer. So the Targum,
"I, by an angel sent by me, led Israel in the right way.''
The allusion seems to be to a mother or nurse accommodating herself to her child, beginning to go; she stoops down, sets it on its feet, and one foot before another, forms its steps, teaches it how to go, and walks its pace with it. And in like manner the Lord deals with his spiritual Israel, his regenerated ones, who become like little children, and are used as such; as in regeneration they are quickened, and have some degree of spiritual strength given them, they are taught to go; they are taught what a Saviour Christ is, and their need of him; they are instructed to go to him by faith for everything they want, and to walk by faith on him, as they have received him; and having heard and learned of the Father, they go to Christ, John 6:45; and are taught also to go to the throne of grace for all supplies of grace; and to the house of God, to attend the word and ordinances, for the benefit of their souls; and to walk in the ways of the Lord, for his glory, and their good;
taking them by their arms; or "on his own arms" x; bearing and carrying them in his arms, as a father his son; see Deuteronomy 1:31
Numbers 11:12; so the Lord deals with his spiritual Israel, either holding them by their arms while walking, as nurses their children, to help and ease them in walking, and that they may not stumble and fall; so the Lord holds up the goings of his people in his ways, that their footsteps slip not, and upholds them with the right hand of his righteousness: or taking them up in his own arms when weary, he carries them in his bosom; or, when they are failing or fallen, lays hold on them, and takes them up again; and so they are not utterly cast down, whether the fall is into sin, or into some calamity and affliction; when he puts underneath his everlasting arms, and bears them and keeps them from sinking, as well as from a final and total falling away. Abarbinel, and others after him, interpret this of Ephraim taking up and carrying in his arms Baalim, the graven images and golden calves; which is mentioned as an instance of ingratitude; but very wrongly;
but they knew not that I healed them; of the diseases of Egypt, or preserved them from them: this includes the whole of their salvation and deliverance from Egypt, and all the benefits and favours accompanying it, which they imputed to their idols, and not to the Lord; see Exodus 15:26. "Healing", in a spiritual sense, generally signifies the forgiveness of sin, which the Lord's people may have, and not know it; and, through want of better light and knowledge, may also ascribe it to their repentance, humiliation, and tears, when it is alone owing to the grace of God, and blood of Christ.
x על זרועותיו "super brachiis suis", Montanus; "super brachia sua", Piscator; "in brachis sua", Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I taught Ephraim also to go - Literally, “and I set Ephraim on his feet;” i. e., while they were rebelling, I was helping and supporting them, as a nurse doth her child, teaching it to go with little steps, step by step, “accustoming it to go by little and little without weariness;” and not only so, but “taking them by their arms;” or it may be equally translated, “He took them in His arms,” i. e., God not only gently “taught” them “to walk,” but when they were wearied, “He took them up in His arms,” as a nurse doth a child when tired with its little attempts to walk. Such was the love and tender care of God, guiding and upholding Israel in His ways which He taught him, guarding him from weariness, or, if wearied, taking him in the arms of His mercy and refreshing him. So Moses says, “In the wilderness thou hast seen, how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place” Deuteronomy 1:31; and he expostulates with God, “Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that Thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth his sucking child, unto the land which Thou swarest unto their father’s?” Numbers 11:12. : “Briefly yet magnificently doth this place hint at the wondrous patience of God, whereof Paul too speaks, “for forty years suffered He their manner’s in the wilderness” Acts 13:18.
For as a nursing father beareth patiently with a child, who hath not yet come to years of discretion, and, although at times he be moved to strike it in return, yet mostly he sootheth its childish follies with blandishments, and, ungrateful though it be, carries it in his arms, so the Lord God, whose are these words, patiently bore with the unformed people, ignorant of the spiritual mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, and although He killed the bodies of many of them in the wilderness yet the rest He soothed with many and great miracles, “leading them about, and instructing them, (as Moses says) keeping them as the apple of His eye” Deuteronomy 32:10.
But they knew not that I healed them - They laid it not to heart, and therefore what they knew with their understanding was worse than ignorance. : “I who was a Father, became a nurse, and Myself carried My little one in My arms, that he should not be hurt in the wilderness, or scared by heat or darkness. By day I was a cloud; by night, a column of fire, that I might by My light illumine, and heal those whom I had protected. And when they had sinned and had made the calf, I gave them place for repentance, and they knew not that I healed them, so as, for forty years, to close the wound of idolatry, restore them to their former health.”
: “The Son of God carried us in His arms to the Father, when He went forth carrying His Cross, and on the wood of the Cross stretched out His arms for our redemption. Those too doth Christ carry daily in His arms, whom He continually entreateth, comforteth, preserveth, so gently, that with much alacrity and without any grievous hindrance they perform every work of God, and with heart enlarged run, rather than walk, the way of God’s commandments. Yet do these need great caution, that they be clothed with great circumspection and humility, and despise not others. Else Christ would say of them, “They knew not that I healed them.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 11:3. I taught Ephraim also to go — An allusion to a mother or nurse teaching a child to walk, directing it how to lift and lay its feet, and supporting it in the meantime by the arms, that it may use its feet with the greater ease. This is a passage truly pathetic.
