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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Hosea 9:7
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Sudah datang hari-hari penghukuman, sudah datang hari-hari pembalasan, Israel akan mengalaminya, "Nabi adalah seorang pandir, orang yang penuh roh adalah orang gila!", oleh karena besarnya kesalahanmu dan besarnya permusuhan:
Bahwa sudah datang hari pembalasannya, sudah datang hari tulahnya, dan Israelpun akan mengetahuinya. Maka orang nabi itu bodoh dan yang berkata dengan ilham roh itu gila! oleh karena kebesaran kesalahanmu maka besarlah juga kebencian.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
days of visitation: Isaiah 10:3, Jeremiah 10:15, Jeremiah 11:23, Jeremiah 46:21, Ezekiel 7:2-7, Ezekiel 12:22-28, Amos 8:2, Micah 7:4, Zephaniah 1:14-18, Luke 21:22, Revelation 16:19
Israel: Isaiah 26:11, Ezekiel 25:17, Ezekiel 38:23
the prophet: Hosea 9:8, Jeremiah 6:14, Jeremiah 8:11, Jeremiah 23:16, Jeremiah 23:17, Lamentations 2:14, Ezekiel 13:3, Ezekiel 13:10, Micah 2:11, Zephaniah 3:4, Zechariah 11:15-17
spiritual man: Heb. man of the spirit
mad: 2 Kings 9:11, Jeremiah 29:26, Mark 3:21, Acts 26:24, Acts 26:25, 2 Corinthians 5:13
the multitude: Ezekiel 14:9, Ezekiel 14:10, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
Reciprocal: Job 31:14 - when he Psalms 5:10 - the Song of Solomon 5:7 - watchmen Isaiah 56:10 - are blind Isaiah 59:15 - maketh himself a prey Jeremiah 5:13 - the prophets Jeremiah 6:15 - at the time Jeremiah 20:7 - I am Jeremiah 23:13 - prophets Jeremiah 47:4 - the day Jeremiah 48:44 - the year Ezekiel 7:4 - but Ezekiel 9:10 - but Hosea 2:13 - I will visit Hosea 4:5 - and the prophet Matthew 11:18 - He 1 Corinthians 4:10 - are fools 1 Corinthians 14:23 - will 2 Peter 2:16 - the madness
Cross-References
And God blessed them, and God sayde vnto them: be fruitefull, & multiplie, and replenishe the earth, & subdue it, and haue dominion of the fisshe of the sea, and foule of the ayre, & of euery lyuing thing that moueth vpon the earth.
And bryng foorth with thee euery beast that is with thee, of all fleshe, both foule and cattell, and euery worme that crepeth vpon the earth, that they may breede in the earth, and bring foorth fruite, and multiplie vpon earth.
And god blessed Noah, and his sonnes, & saide vnto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth.
These are the three sonnes of Noah, & of them was the whole earth ouerspread.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come,.... In which the Lord would punish the people of Israel for their sins, and reward them in a righteous manner, according as their evil works deserved; which time, being fixed and appointed by him, are called "days"; and these, because near at hand, are said to be "come"; and this is repeated for the certainty of it:
Israel shall know [it]; by sad experience, that these days are come; and shall acknowledge the truth of the divine predictions, and the righteousness of God in his judgments. Schultens z, from the use of the phrase in the Arabic language, interprets it of Israel's suffering punishment; with which agrees the Septuagint version, "Israel shall be afflicted", or it shall go ill with him; and to the same purpose the Arabic version:
the prophet [is] a fool; so Israel said, before those days came, of a true prophet of the Lord, that he was a fool for prophesying of evil things, but now they shall find it otherwise. So the Targum,
"they of the house of Israel shall know that they who had prophesied to them were true prophets;''
but rather this is to be understood of false prophets, who, when the day of God's visitation shall come on Israel in a way of wrath and vengeance, will appear both to themselves and others to be fools, for prophesying good things to them, when evil was at hand:
the spiritual man [is] mad; he that was truly so, and prophesied under the inspiration of the Spirit of God, was accounted a madman for speaking against the idolatry of the times, and foretelling the judgments of God that would come upon the nation for it; but now it would be manifest, that not he, but such who pretended to be spiritual men, and to be directed and dictated by the Spirit of God, when they promised the people peace, though they walked after the imagination of their hearts, were the real madmen; who pursued the frenzies and fancies of their own minds, to the deception of themselves and the people, and called these the revelations of God, and pretended they came from the Spirit of God:
for the multitude of thine iniquities, and the great hatred; that is, either those evil days came upon them for their manifold sins and transgressions, which were hateful to God, and the cause of his hatred of them; or they were suffered to give heed to those foolish and mad prophets, because of their many sins, especially idolatry; and because of their great hatred of God, and of his true prophets, and of his laws and ordinances, of his word, will, and worship, and of one another, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to a judicial blindness and hardness of heart, to believe a lie, and whatsoever those false prophets declared unto them, because they did not like to retain him in their knowledge, to walk according to his law, and to believe his prophets. The Targum is,
"but the false prophets besotted them, so as to increase thy transgression, and strengthen thine iniquities.''
z Animadv. Philol. in Job, p. 78.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The days of visitation are come - The false prophets had continually hood-winked the people, promising them that those days would never come. “They had put far away the evil day” Amos 6:3. Now it was not at hand only. In God’s purpose, those “days” were “come,” irresistible, inevitable, inextricable; days in which God would visit, what in His long-suffering, He seemed to overlook, and would “recompense each according to his works.”
Israel shall know it - Israel would not know by believing it; now it should “know,” by feeling it.
The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad - The true prophet gives to the false the title which they claimed for themselves, “the prophet” and “the man of the spirit.” Only the event showed what spirit was in them, not the spirit of God but a lying spirit. The people of the world called the true prophets, “mad,” literally, maddened, “driven mad,” , as Festus thought of Paul; “Thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad” Acts 26:24. Jehu’s captains called by the same name the young prophet whom Elisha sent to anoint him. “Wherefore came this mad fellow unto thee?” 2 Kings 9:11. Shemaiah, the false prophet, who deposed God’s priest, set false priests to “be officers in the house of the Lord,” to have an oversight as to “every man who is mad and maketh himself a prophet,” calling Jeremiah both a false prophet and a “madman” (Jeremiah 29:25-26. The word is the same).
The event was the test. Of our Lord Himself, the Jews blaspbemed, “He hath a devil and is mad” John 10:20. And long afterward, “madness,” “phrensy” were among the names which the pagan gave to the faith in Christ . As Paul says, that “Christ crucified” was “to the Greeks” and to “them that perish, foolishness,” and that the “things of the Spirit of God, are foolishness to the natural man, neither can he know” them, “because they are spiritually discerned” 1 Corinthians 1:18, 1Co 1:23; 1 Corinthians 2:14. The man of the world and the Christian judge of the same things by clean contrary rules, use them for quite contrary ends. The slave of pleasure counts him mad, who foregoes it; the wealthy trader counts him mad, who gives away profusely. In these days, profusion for the love of Christ has been counted a ground for depriving a man of the care of his property. One or the other is mad. And worldlings must count the Christian mad; else they must own themselves to be so most fearfully. In the Day of Judgment, Wisdom says, “They, repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit, shall say within themselves, This was he whom we had sometimes in derision and a proverb of reproach. We fools counted his life madness, and his end to be without honor. How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!” (Wisd. 5:3-6).
For the multitude of thine iniquity and the great hatred - The words stand at the close of the verse, as the reason of all which had gone before. Their “manifold iniquity” and their “great hatred” of God were the ground why the “days of visitation” and “recompense” should “come.” They were the ground also, why God allowed such prophets to delude them. The words, “the great hatred,” stand quite undefined, so that they may signify alike the hatred of Ephraim against God and good people and His true prophets, or God’s hatred of them. Yet it, most likely, means, “their” great hatred, since of them the prophet uses it again in the next verse. The sinner first neglects God; then, as the will of God is brought before him, he willfully disobeys Him; then, when, he finds God’s will irreconcilably at variance with his own, or when God chastens him, he hates Him, and (the prophet speaks out plainly) “hates” Him “greatly.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 9:7. The days of visitation — Of punishment are come.
The prophet is a fool — Who has pretended to foretell, on Divine authority, peace and plenty; for behold all is desolation.
The spiritual man — איש הרוח ish haruach, the man of spirit, who was ever pretending to be under a Divine afflatus.
Is mad — He is now enraged to see every thing falling out contrary to his prediction.
