Oseas 7:14

Filipino Cebuano Bible

14 Ug sila uban sa ilang kasingkasing wala magtu-aw sa pagpakitabang kanako, hinonoa nanag-uwang sila ibabaw sa ilang mga higdaanan: sila nanagkatigum sa ilang kaugalingon alang sa trigo ug sa bag-ong vino: sila mingsukol batok kanako.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they have not: Job 35:9, Job 35:10, Psalms 78:34-37, Isaiah 29:13, Jeremiah 3:10, Zechariah 7:5

when: Isaiah 52:5, Isaiah 65:14, Amos 8:3, James 5:1

assemble: Hosea 3:1, Exodus 32:6, Judges 9:27, Amos 2:8, Micah 2:11, Romans 16:18, Philippians 3:19, James 4:3

Reciprocal: Exodus 33:4 - they mourned Job 15:4 - restrainest Job 27:9 - his cry Job 35:13 - God Psalms 18:41 - General Psalms 32:3 - roaring Psalms 78:37 - their heart Psalms 119:58 - I entreated Psalms 145:18 - call upon Isaiah 24:11 - a crying Isaiah 26:16 - in trouble Isaiah 59:11 - roar Isaiah 64:7 - there is Jeremiah 2:27 - but in the time Jeremiah 22:23 - how Lamentations 2:18 - heart Daniel 9:13 - made we not our prayer before Hosea 7:7 - there Hosea 8:2 - General Amos 4:6 - yet Jonah 1:5 - cried

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they have not cried unto me with their heart,.... In their distress, indeed, they cried unto the Lord, and said they repented of their sins, and promised reformation, and made a show of worshipping God; as invocation is sometimes put for the whole worship of God; but then this was not heartily, but hypocritically; their hearts and their mouths did not go together, and therefore was not reckoned prayer; nothing but howling, as follows:

when they howled upon their beds; lying sick or wounded there; or, as some, in their idol temples, those beds of adultery, where they pretended to worship God by them, and to pray to him through them; but such idolatrous prayers were no better than the howlings of clogs to him; even though they expressed outwardly their cries with great vehemency, as the word used denotes, having one letter more in it than common:

they assemble themselves for corn and wine: either at their banquets, to feast upon them, as Aben Ezra; or to the markets, to buy them, as Kimchi suggests; or rather to their idol temples, to deprecate a famine, and to pray for rain and fruitful seasons; or if they gather together to pray to the Lord, it is only for carnal and worldly things; they only seek themselves, and their own interest, and not the glory of God, and ask for these things, to consume them on their lust. The Septuagint version is, "for corn and wine they were cut", or cut themselves, as Baal's priests did, when they cried to him, 1 Kings 18:28; and Theodoret here observes, that they performed the Heathen rites, and in idol temples made incisions on their bodies:

[and] they rebel against me: not only flee from him transgress his laws but cast off all allegiance to him and take up arms, and commit hostilities against him. The Targum joins this with the preceding clause,

"because of the multitude of corn and wine which they have gathered they have rebelled against my word;''

and to the same sense Jarchi; thus, Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they have not cried unto him with their heart, when they howled upon their beds - Or, in the present time, “they cry not unto Me when they howl.” They did “cry,” and, it may be, they “cried” even “unto God.” At least, the prophet does not deny that they cried to God at all; only, he says, that they did “not cry to” Him “with their heart.” Their cries were wrung from them by their temporal distresses, and ended in them, not in God. There was no sincerity in their hearts, no change in their doings. Their cry was a mere howling. The secret complaint of the heart is a loud cry in the ears of God. The impetuous “cry” of impatient and unconverted suffering is a mere brutish “howling.” Their heart was set wholly on their earthly needs; it did not thank God for giving them good things, nor cry to Him truly when He withheld them.

But, it may be, that the prophet means also to contrast the acts of the ungodly, private and public, amid distress, with those of the godly. The godly man implores God in public and in private. The prayer on the “bed,” expresses the private prayer of the soul to God, when, the world being shut out, it is alone with Him. In place of this, there was the “howling,” as people toss fretfully and angrily on their beds, roar for pain; but, instead of complaining “to” God, complain “of” Him, and are angry, not with themselves, but with God. In place of the public prayer and humiliation, there was a mere tumultuous assembly, in which they clamored “for grain and wine,” and “rebelled against God. They assemble themselves;” (literally, “they gather themselves tumultuously together). They rebel against Me ;” (literally, “they turn aside against Me”). They did not only (as it is expressed elsewhere) “turn aside “from” God.” “They turn aside against Me,” He says, flying, as it were, in the very face of God. This “tumultuous assembly” was either some stormy civil debate, how to obtain the grain and wine which God withheld, or a tumultuous clamoring to their idols and false gods, like that of the priests of Baal, when arrayed against Elijah on Mount Carmel; whereby they removed the further from God’s law, and rebelled with a high hand against Him.

: What is to “cry to the Lord,” but to long for the Lord? But if anyone multiply prayers, crying and weeping as he may, yet not with any intent to gain God Himself, but to obtain some earthly or passing thing, he cannot truly be said to “cry unto the Lord,” i. e., so to cry that his cry should come to the hearing of the Lord. This is a cry like Esau’s, who sought no other fruit from his father’s blessing, save to be rich and powerful in this world. When then He saith, “They cried not to Me in their heart, etc.,” He means, they were not devoted to Me, their heart was not right with Me; they sought not Myself, but things of Mine. They howled, desiring only things for the belly, and seeking not to have Me. Thus they belong not to “the generation of those who seek the Lord, who seek the face of the God of Jacob” Psalms 24:6, but to the generation of Esau.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 7:14. They have not cried unto me with their heart — They say they have sought me, but could not find me; that they have cried unto me, but I did not answer. I know they have cried, yea, howled; but could I hear them when all was forced and hypocritical, not one sigh coming from their heart?

They assemble themselves for corn and wine — In dearth and famine they call and howl: but they assemble themselves, not to seek ME, but to invoke their false gods for corn and wine.