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Hosea 11:8
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Masakan Aku membiarkan engkau, hai Efraim, menyerahkan engkau, hai Israel? Masakan Aku membiarkan engkau seperti Adma, membuat engkau seperti Zeboim? Hati-Ku berbalik dalam diri-Ku, belas kasihan-Ku bangkit serentak.
Bagaimana boleh Aku membiarkan dikau, hai Efrayim! bagaimana boleh Aku menyerahkan dikau, hai Israel! bagaimana boleh Aku jadikan dikau seperti Adam dan menyamakan dikau dengan Zeboyim? bahwa hati-Ku terbalik dalam dada-Ku dan segala belas kasihan-Kupun berbangkitlah.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
How shall I give: Hosea 6:4, Jeremiah 9:7, Lamentations 3:33, Matthew 23:37, Luke 19:41, Luke 19:42
Admah: Genesis 14:8, Genesis 19:24, Genesis 19:25, Deuteronomy 29:23, Isaiah 1:9, Isaiah 1:10, Amos 4:11, Zephaniah 2:9, 2 Peter 2:6, Jude 1:7, Revelation 11:8, Revelation 18:18
Mine: Deuteronomy 32:36, Judges 10:16, 2 Samuel 24:16, 2 Kings 13:23, Psalms 106:45, Isaiah 63:15, Jeremiah 3:12, Jeremiah 31:20, Amos 7:3, Amos 7:6
heart: Lamentations 1:20
Reciprocal: Genesis 6:6 - repented Genesis 10:19 - Sodom Genesis 14:2 - Admah Genesis 19:29 - that God Genesis 43:30 - his bowels Judges 2:18 - it repented Judges 21:6 - repented them 1 Samuel 13:18 - Zeboim 1 Kings 3:26 - her bowels 2 Chronicles 30:1 - Ephraim 2 Chronicles 36:15 - because Job 35:15 - in great Psalms 90:13 - let it Psalms 135:14 - he will repent Song of Solomon 6:12 - soul Isaiah 12:1 - though Isaiah 16:11 - my Isaiah 30:18 - wait Isaiah 64:5 - in those Jeremiah 3:19 - How Jeremiah 5:7 - How shall Jeremiah 18:8 - I will Jeremiah 20:16 - as Jeremiah 31:18 - Ephraim Jeremiah 42:10 - for I Jeremiah 50:40 - General Lamentations 3:32 - General Ezekiel 16:46 - her daughters Ezekiel 18:23 - I any Ezekiel 33:11 - I have Hosea 3:1 - according Joel 2:18 - and pity Jonah 4:2 - thou art Micah 5:3 - give Zechariah 1:14 - I am Matthew 7:11 - how Matthew 18:27 - moved Luke 15:20 - But Luke 17:29 - General Luke 20:13 - What Luke 22:61 - looked Luke 24:47 - beginning Hebrews 4:15 - we have
Cross-References
Unto Heber also were borne two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his dayes was the earth deuided, and his brothers name was Iactan.
And so these are the kinredes of the chyldren of Noah after their generations in their peoples: and of these were the nations deuided in the earth after the flood.
And they sayd: Go to, let vs buylde vs a citie and a towre, whose toppe may reache vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest peraduenture we be scattered abrode into the vpper face of the whole earth.
And therfore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord dyd there confounde the language of all the earth: and from thence dyd the Lorde scatter them abrode vpon the face of all the earth.
Cursed be their wrath, for it was shamelesse, and their fiercenesse, for it was cruell: I wyll deuide them in Iacob, and scatter them in Israel.
When the most hyest deuided to the nations their inheritaunce, and when he seperated the sonnes of Adam, he put the borders of the nations accordyng to the number of the children of Israel:
He hath shewed stregth with his arme, he hath scattered them that are proude, in the imagination of their heartes.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? [how] shall I deliver thee,
Israel?.... That is, as usually interpreted, into the hand of the enemy, or unto wrath, ruin, and destruction; for, notwithstanding all the sins of this people before observed, and the punishment threatened to be inflicted on them, the Lord is pleased here, and in the following verses, to give some intimations of his goodness, grace, and mercy to them; not to the whole body of them, for they as such were given and delivered up to the enemy, and carried captive, and dispersed among the nations, and were never recovered to this day; but to a remnant among them, according to the election of grace, that should spring from them, for the sake of which they were not all cut off by the sword; but were reserved as a seed for later times, the times of the Messiah, which the prophecy in this and the following words has respect unto; not only the first times of the Gospel, when some of the dispersed of Israel were met with by it, and converted under it; but the last times of it; times yet to come, when all Israel shall be saved; and may be applied to the elect of God, in all ages, and of all nations, The words are generally understood as a debate in the divine mind, struggling within itself between justice and mercy; justice requiring the delivery of these persons unto it, and mercy being reluctant thereunto, pleading on their behalf; and which at last gets the victory, and rejoices against judgment. There is a truth in all this; justice seems to demand that sinners, as such, who have injured and affronted him, be given up to, him, and suffer the curse of the law, according to their deserts, and be delivered unto death, even eternal death, as well as to temporal punishments; and which might be expected would be the case, by the instances and examples of the angels that sinned, and of the men of the old world, and of the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah; but mercy cannot bear it, pleads against; it, and asks how can it be done, since these are my children, my dear child, on, pleasant ones, as Ephraim was, my chosen and my covenant ones, and, besides, for whom provision is made in Christ for the satisfactions of justice? But the sense is rather this, "how might" or "could I give thee up; Ephraim? how might" or "could I deliver thee, Israel" e? that is, with what severity might I deal with thee? and how justly and righteously could I do it? since thy sins are so many, and so great;
how shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall I set thee as Zeboim? two cities that were utterly destroyed by fire from heaven, along with Sodom and Gomorrah, Deuteronomy 29:23; how justly could I have made thee, and put thee in, the same condition and circumstances, as those two cities, and the inhabitants of them, who were so severely punished for their sins, and were never restored again? signifying, that inasmuch as they were guilty of the same or like heinous sins, was he utterly to destroy them, and cut them off from the face of the earth, he should not exceed the due bounds of justice. To this sense Schmidt interprets the words. The design of which is to show the greatness of Ephraim's sins, as deserving the uttermost wrath and vengeance of God, and to magnify the riches of God's grace in their salvation, as next expressed; and it is true of all God's elect, who, considered as sinners in Adam, and by their own transgressions, both before and after conversion, deserved to be treated according to the rigour of justice; but God is merciful to them, according to his choice of them, covenant with them, and provision he has made in Christ, and upon the foot of his satisfaction;
mine heart is turned within me; not changed; for there is no shadow of turning with the Lord, neither in his mind and purposes, which he never turns from, nor can be turned back; nor in his affections for them; as his heart is never turned from love to hatred, so neither from hatred to love; or his love would not be from everlasting, as it is, and he rest in it as he does; but this expresses the strong motion of mercy in him towards his people, springing from his sovereign will and pleasure, and what is elsewhere signified by the troubling, soundings, and yearnings of his bowels towards them; see Jeremiah 31:20; with which compare Lamentations 1:20;
my repentings are kindled together; not that repentance properly belongs to God, who is neither man, nor the Son of Man, that he should repent of anything, Numbers 23:19; he repents not of his love to his people, nor of his choice of them, nor of his covenant with them, nor of his special gifts and grace bestowed on them; but he sometimes does what men do when they repent, he changes his outward conduct and behaviour in the dispensations of his providence, and acts the reverse of what he had done, or seemed to be about to do; as, with respect to the old world, the making of Saul king, and the case of the Ninevites, Genesis 6:6; so here, though he could, and seemed as if he would, go forth in a way of strict justice, yet changes his course, and steers another way, without any change of his will. The phrase expresses the warmth and ardour of his affections to his people; how his heart burned with love to them, his bowels and inward parts were inflamed with it; from whence proceeded what is called repentance among men, as in the case of Jeremiah, Jeremiah 20:9. The Targum is,
"the word of my covenant met me; my mercies (or bowels of mercies) were rolled together.''
e איך אתנך "quam juste et misere desolatum te dabo? dare jure deberem et possem?" Schmidt. So Luther and Tarnovius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? - o: “God is infinitely just and infinitely merciful. The two attributes are so united in Him, yea, so one in Him who is always one, and in whose counsels “there is no variableness, nor shadow of turning,” that the one doth not ever thwart the proceeding of the other. Yet, in order to shew that our ills are from our own ill-deserts, not from any pleasure of His in inflicting ill, and that what mercy He sheweth, is from His own goodness, not from any in us, God is represented in this empassioned expression as in doubt, and (so to say) divided between justice and mercy, the one pleading against the other. At the last, God so determines, that both should have their share in the issue, and that Israel should be both justly punished and mercifully spared and relieved.”
God pronounces on the evil deserts of Israel, even while He mitigates His sentence. The depth of the sinner’s guilt reflects the more vividly the depth of God’s mercy. In saying, “how shall I make thee as Admah?” how “shall I set thee as Zeboim?” He says, in fact, that they were, for their sins, worthy to be utterly destroyed, with no trace, no memorial, save that eternal desolation like the five “cities of the plain,” of which were Sodom and Gomorrah, which God “hath set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire” Jude 1:7. Such was their desert. But God says, with inexpressible tenderness, “Mine heart is turned within Me” literally, “upon Me or against Me,” so as to be a burden to Him; as we say of the heart, that it is “heavy.” God deigneth to speak as if His love was heavy, or a weight upon Him, while He thought of the punishment which their sins deserved.
My heart is turned - o: “As soon as I had spoken evil against thee, mercy prevailed, tenderness touched Me; the tenderness of the Father overcame the austerity of the Judge.”
My repentings are kindled together, - or My strong compassions are kindled. i. e., with the heat and glow of love; as the disciples say, “Did not our hearts burn within us?” Luke 24:32, and as it is said of Joseph “his bowels did yearn Genesis 43:30 (literally, were hot) toward his brother;” and of the true mother before Solomon, “her bowels yearned 1 Kings 3:26 (English margin, were hot) upon her son.”
“Admah” and “Zeboim” were cities in the same plain with Sodom and Gomorrah, and each had their petty king Genesis 14:2. In the history of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, they are not named, but are included in the general title “those cities and all the plain” (Genesis 19:25). The more then would Hosea’s hearers think of that place in Moses where he does mention them, and where he threatens them with the like end; “when the stranger shall see, that the whole land thereof is brimstone and salt and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath” Deuteronomy 29:22-23. Such was the end, at which all their sins aimed; such the end, which God had held out to them; but His “strong compassions were kindled.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 11:8. How shall I give thee up — Hosea 6:4, where we have similar words from similar feeling.
Mine heart is turned within me — Justice demands thy punishment; Mercy pleads for thy life. As thou changest, Justice resolves to destroy, or Mercy to save. My heart is oppressed, and I am weary with repenting - with so frequently changing my purpose. All this, though spoken after the manner of men, shows how merciful, compassionate, and loath to punish the God of heaven is. What sinner or saint upon earth has not been a subject of these gracious operations?
