the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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THE MESSAGE
Hosea 12:7
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A merchant loves to extortwith dishonest scales in his hands.
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.
A merchant, in whose hands are fraudulent balances, Loves to exploit.
The merchants use dishonest scales; they like to cheat people.
A merchant, in whose hand are false and fraudulent balances; He loves to oppress and exploit.
He is Canaan: the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loueth to oppresse.
A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, He loves to oppress.
A merchant, in whose hands are deceptive balances,He loves to oppress.
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
Israel, you enjoy cheating and taking advantage of others.
So you, return to your God; hold fast to grace and justice; and always put your hope in your God.
[He is] a merchant, balances of deceit are in his hand; he loveth to oppress.
"Jacob is a tricky merchant. He even cheats his friend! Even his scales lie.
The balances of deceit are in the hand of Canaan, he loves to oppress.
The Lord says, "The people of Israel are as dishonest as the Canaanites; they love to cheat their customers with false scales.
The trader, in his hand are scales of deceit; he loves to oppress.
He is a merchant; the scales of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.
He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
Therefore turn thou to thy God; keep mercy and justice, and wait for thy God continually.
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: hee loueth to oppresse.
[He is] Chanaan, the ballaunces of deceipt are in his hande, he loueth to oppresse.
As for Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.
He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
Chanaan louyde fals caleng, a gileful balaunce in his hond.
[He is] a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
[He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.
"A cunning Canaanite! Deceitful scales are in his hand; He loves to oppress.
But no, the people are like crafty merchants selling from dishonest scales— they love to cheat.
One who buys and sells and who lies about the weight of things loves to make it hard for others.
A trader, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.
A trafficker! in his hand, are balances of deceit, to oppress, he loveth.
He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.
A trader, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.
Canaan! in his hand [are] balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.
But the marchaunt hath a false weight in his honde, he hath a pleasure to occupie extorcion.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a merchant: or, Canaan, Ezekiel 16:3, Zechariah 14:21, John 2:16
the balances: Leviticus 19:35, Leviticus 19:36, Proverbs 11:1, Proverbs 16:11, Amos 8:5, Amos 8:6, Micah 6:10, Micah 6:11, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:10
he loveth: Isaiah 3:5, Ezekiel 22:29, Amos 2:7, Amos 3:9, Amos 4:1, Amos 5:11, Micah 2:1, Micah 3:1-3, Micah 7:2, Malachi 3:5, James 5:4
oppress: or, deceive, 1 Samuel 12:3
Reciprocal: Psalms 10:3 - and blesseth Psalms 36:2 - For he Psalms 52:7 - strengthened Psalms 73:12 - they Proverbs 20:14 - It is naught Proverbs 20:23 - a false balance Isaiah 10:14 - And my Isaiah 23:11 - against the merchant city Isaiah 23:17 - and she shall Jeremiah 5:27 - so are Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Ezekiel 18:12 - oppressed Ezekiel 28:5 - and by Ezekiel 28:16 - the multitude Hosea 11:12 - compasseth Zephaniah 1:11 - all the Mark 11:17 - a den Luke 19:46 - General Acts 19:25 - ye know Acts 24:26 - hoped Revelation 18:15 - which
Cross-References
Noah built an altar to God . He selected clean animals and birds from every species and offered them as burnt offerings on the altar. God smelled the sweet fragrance and thought to himself, "I'll never again curse the ground because of people. I know they have this bent toward evil from an early age, but I'll never again kill off everything living as I've just done.
He moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent between Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there and prayed to God .
Abram kept moving, steadily making his way south, to the Negev.
Abram moved his tent. He went and settled by the Oaks of Mamre in Hebron. There he built an altar to God .
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, God showed up and said to him, "I am The Strong God, live entirely before me, live to the hilt! I'll make a covenant between us and I'll give you a huge family."
Overwhelmed, Abram fell flat on his face. Then God said to him, "This is my covenant with you: You'll be the father of many nations. Your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham, meaning that ‘I'm making you the father of many nations.' I'll make you a father of fathers—I'll make nations from you, kings will issue from you. I'm establishing my covenant between me and you, a covenant that includes your descendants, a covenant that goes on and on and on, a covenant that commits me to be your God and the God of your descendants. And I'm giving you and your descendants this land where you're now just camping, this whole country of Canaan, to own forever. And I'll be their God."
God appeared to Abraham at the Oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent. It was the hottest part of the day. He looked up and saw three men standing. He ran from his tent to greet them and bowed before them.
They arrived at the place to which God had directed him. Abraham built an altar. He laid out the wood. Then he tied up Isaac and laid him on the wood. Abraham reached out and took the knife to kill his son.
Isaac built an altar there and prayed, calling on God by name. He pitched his tent and his servants started digging another well.
Then God was right before him, saying, "I am God , the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. I'm giving the ground on which you are sleeping to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will be as the dust of the Earth; they'll stretch from west to east and from north to south. All the families of the Earth will bless themselves in you and your descendants. Yes. I'll stay with you, I'll protect you wherever you go, and I'll bring you back to this very ground. I'll stick with you until I've done everything I promised you."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[He is] a merchant,.... Here is a change of person from "thou" to "he", from Judah to Ephraim, who is said to be a "merchant"; and if that was all, there is nothing worthy of dispraise in it; but he was a cheating merchant, a fraudulent dealer, as appears by what follows: or he is Canaan, or a Canaanite y; more like a descendant of Canaan, by his manners, than a descendant of Jacob. But the Canaanites dealing much in merchandise, their name became a common name for a merchant, as a Chaldean for an astrologer; and as the children of Israel possessed their land, so they followed the same business and employment of life; which, had they performed honestly, would not have been to their discredit; but they were too much like the Canaanites, of whom Philostratus z says, they were covetous and fraudulent; and this was Ephraim's character. The Targum is,
"be you not as merchants;''
the balances of deceit [are] in his hand; he used false weights and measures; made the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsified the balances by deceit; had wicked balances, and deceitful weights, and the scant measure, which is abominable, Amos 8:5; they pretended to weigh everything exactly they bought or sold; but cheated either by sleight or hand, holding the balances as they should not; or had one pair of scales and weights to buy with, and another to sell by, contrary to the law of God, Leviticus 19:35;
he loveth to oppress; instead of keeping and doing mercy and justice, they oppressed the poor, ground their faces, defrauded them of their due, and by secret and private methods cheated them in their dealings with them, and brought them to poverty and distress; and this they took delight and pleasure in, which showed a want of a principle of honesty in them, and that they were habituated to such a course of life, and were hardened in it, and had no remorse of conscience for it, but rather gloried in it.
y כנען χανααν, Sept. "Chanaan", V. L. Tigurine version; "Chanauaeum" refers, Munster. z Apud Grotium in loc.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He is a merchant - Or, indignantly, “a merchant in whose hands are the balances of deceit!” How could they love “mercy and justice,” whose trade was “deceit,” who weighed out deceit with their goods? False in their dealings, in their weights and measures, and, by taking advantage of the necessities of others, oppressive also. Deceit is the sin of weakness oppression is the abuse of power. Wealth does not give the power to use naked violence but wealthy covetousness manifoldly grinds the poor. When for instance, wages are paid in necessaries priced exorbitantly, or when artisans are required to buy at a loss at their masters’ shops, what is it but the union of deceit and oppression? The trading world is full of oppression, scarcely veiled by deceit. “He loveth to oppress.” Deceit and oppression have, each, a devilish attractiveness to those practiced in them; deceit, as exercising cleverness, cunning, skill in overreaching, outwitting; oppression, as indulging self will, caprice, love of power, insolence, and the like vices. The word “merchant,” as the prophet spoke it, was “Canaan;” merchants being so called, because the Canaanites or Phoenicians were the then great merchant-people, as astrologers were called Chaldeans. The Phoenicians were, in Homer’s time, infamous for their griping in traffic. They are called “gnawers” and “money-lovers” . To call Israel, “Canaan,” was to deny to him any title to the name of Israel, “reversing the blessing of Jacob, so that, as it had been said of Jacob, “thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel,” he would in fact say, ‘Thy name shall be called no more Israel, but Canaan’; as being, through their deeds, heirs, not to the blessings of Israel but to the curse of Canaan.” So Ezekiel saith, “Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite” Ezekiel 16:3.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 12:7. He is a merchant — Or a Canaanite; referring to the Phoenicians, famous for their traffic. Ephraim is as corrupt as those heathenish traffickers were. He kept, as many in all ages have done, a weight and a weight; a heavy one to buy with and a light one to sell by.
