Oseas 8:1

Filipino Cebuano Bible

1 Itaon sa imong baba ang trompeta. Maingon sa agila siya mosakdup batok sa balay ni Jehova, tungod kay sila nakalapas sa akong tugon, ug nakalapas batok sa akong Kasugoan.

Bible Verse Review
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the trumpet: Hosea 5:8, Isaiah 18:3, Isaiah 58:1, Jeremiah 4:5, Jeremiah 6:1, Jeremiah 51:27, Ezekiel 7:14, Ezekiel 33:3-6, Joel 2:1, Joel 2:15, Amos 3:6, Zephaniah 1:16, Zechariah 9:14, 1 Corinthians 15:52

thy mouth: Heb. the roof of thy mouth

as: Deuteronomy 28:49, Jeremiah 4:13, Jeremiah 48:40, Habakkuk 1:8, Matthew 24:28

the house: Hosea 9:15, 2 Kings 18:27, Amos 8:3, Amos 9:1, Zechariah 11:1

transgressed: Hosea 6:7, Isaiah 24:5, Jeremiah 31:32, Ezekiel 16:59, Hebrews 8:8-13

Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:13 - the eagle Numbers 10:2 - the calling Deuteronomy 17:2 - in transgressing Job 39:27 - the eagle Psalms 78:37 - stedfast Jeremiah 2:2 - cry Jeremiah 6:17 - Hearken Jeremiah 11:10 - the house of Israel Jeremiah 34:18 - have transgressed Jeremiah 49:22 - he shall Lamentations 4:19 - persecutors Ezekiel 11:4 - General Ezekiel 16:2 - cause Ezekiel 17:3 - A great Hosea 10:10 - and the Zechariah 5:9 - for Matthew 6:2 - do not sound a trumpet Acts 2:14 - lifted Revelation 14:7 - with

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[Set] the trumpet to thy mouth,.... Or, "the trumpet to the roof of thy mouth" t; a concise expression denoting haste, and the vehemence of the passions speaking; they are either the words of the Lord to the prophet, as the Targum,

"O prophet, cry with thy throat as with a trumpet, saying;''

Aben Ezra take them to be the words of the Lord the prophet, and the sense agrees with Isaiah 58:1. The prophet is here considered as a watchman, and is called upon to blow his trumpet; either to call the people together, "as an eagle to the house of the Lord" u, as the next clause may be connected with this; that is, to come as swiftly to the house of the Lord, and hear what he had to say to them, and to supplicate the Lord for mercy in a time of distress: or to give the people notice of the approach of the enemy, and tell them that

[he shall come] as an eagle against the house of the Lord; "flying as an eagle over" w or "against the house of the Lord": or they are the words of the Lord, or of the prophet, to the enemy, to blow his trumpet, and sound the alarm of war, and call his army together, and bid them fly like an eagle, with that swiftness and fierceness as that creature does to its prey, against the house of the Lord; meaning not the temple at Jerusalem, but the nation of Israel, formerly called the house and family of God, and still pretended to be so. There may be some allusion to Bethel, which signifies the house of God, where they practised their idolatry. This is to be understood, not of Nebuchadnezzar, sometimes compared to an eagle, Ezekiel 17:3; for not the destruction of the city and temple of Jerusalem is here meant; nor of the Romans, as Lyra seems to understand it, the eagle being the ensign of the Romans; but of Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, compared to this creature for his swiftness in coming, his strength, fierceness, and cruelty; this creature being swift in flight, and a bird of prey. So the Targum interprets it of a king and his army,

"behold, as an eagle flieth, so shall a king with his army come up and encamp against the house of the sanctuary of the Lord.''

Some reference seems to be had to Deuteronomy 28:49;

because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law; the law that was given to Israel by Moses at the appointment of God, to which they assented, and promised to observes: and so it had the form of a covenant to them: the bounds of this law and covenant they transgressed, and dealt perfidiously with, and prevaricated in, and wilfully broke all its commands, by their idolatry, murder, adultery, theft, and other sins.

t אל חכך שופר "adhibita palato tuo buccina", Junius Tremellius "adhibe palato buccinam", De Dieu; "ad palatum tuum buccinam", Schmidt. u כנשר על בית יהוה "similis aquilae in domum Jehovae", Junius Tremellius, Piscator. w "Super domum Domini", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Schmidt "contra domum Jehovae", Liveleus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The trumpet to thy mouth! - So God bids the prophet Isaiah, “Cry aloud, spare not, llft up thy voice like a trumpet” Isaiah 58:1. The prophets, as watchmen, were set by God to give notice of His coming judgments Ezekiel 33:3; Amos 3:6. As the sound of a war-trumpet would startle a sleeping people, so would God have the prophet’s warning burst upon their sleep of sin. The ministers of the Church are called to be “watchmen” . “They too are forbidden to keep a cowardly silence, when “the house of the Lord” is imperilled by the breach of the covenant or violation of the law. If fear of the wicked or false respect for the great silences the voice of those whose office it is to “cry aloud,” how shall such cowardice be excused?”

He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord - The words “he shall come” are inserted for clearness. The prophet beholds the enemy speeding with the swiftness of an eagle, as it darts down upon its prey. “The house of the Lord” is, most strictly, the temple, as being “the place which God had chosen to place His name there.” Next, it is used, of the kingdom of Judah and Jerusalem, among whom the temple was; from where God says, “I have forsaken My house, I have left Mine heritage; I have given the dearly-beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies” Jeremiah 12:7, and, “What hath My beloved to do in Mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many?” Jeremiah 11:15. Yet the title of “God’s house” is older than the temple, for God Himself uses it of His whole people, saying of Moses, “My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all Mine house” Numbers 12:7. And even the ten tribes, separated as they were from the Temple-worship, and apostates from the true faith of God, were not, as yet, counted by Him as wholly excluded from the “house of God.” For God, below, threatens that removal, as something still to come; “for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of My house” Hosea 9:15. The eagle, then coming down “against or upon” the house of the Lord, is primarily Shalmaneser, who came down and carried off the ten tribes. Yet since Hosea, in these prophecies, includes Judah, also, “the house of the Lord” is most probably to be taken in its fullest sense, as including the whole people of God, among whom He dwelt, and the temple where His Name was placed. The “eagle” includes then Nebuchadnezzar also, whom other prophets so call Ezekiel 17:3, Ezekiel 17:12; Jeremiah 48:40; Habakkuk 1:8; and (since, all through, the principle of sin is the same and the punishment the same) it includes the Roman eagle, the ensign of their armies.

Because they have transgressed My covenant - “God, whose justice is always unquestionable, useth to make clear to people its reasonableness.” Israel had broken the covenant which God had made with their fathers, that He would be to them a God, and they to Him a people. The “covenant” they had broken chiefly by idolatry and apostasy; the “law,” by sins against their neighbor. In both ways they had rejected God; therefore God rejected them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VIII

This chapter begins with threatening some hostile invasion in

short and broken sentences, full of rapidity, and expressive of

sudden danger and alarm: "The trumpet to thy mouth; he cometh

as an eagle," 1.

And why? For their hypocrisy, 2;

iniquity, 3;

treason (see 2 Kings 15:13; 2 Kings 15:17) and idolatry, 4;

particularly the worshipping of the calves of Dan and Bethel, 5, 6.

The folly and unprofitableness of pursuing evil courses is then

set forth in brief but very emphatic terms. The labour of the

wicked is vain, like sowing of the wind; and the fruit of it

destructive as the whirlwind. Like corn blighted in the bud,

their toil shall have no recompense; or if it should have a

little, their enemies shall devour it, 7.

They themselves, too, shall suffer the same fate, and shall be

treated by the nations of Assyria and Egypt as the vile sherds

of a broken vessel, 8, 9.

Their incorrigible idolatry is again declared to be the cause

of their approaching captivity under the king of Assyria. And

as they delighted in idolatrous altars, there they shall have

these in abundance, 10-14.

The last words contain a prediction of the destruction of the

fenced cities of Judah, because the people trusted in these for

deliverance, and not in the Lord their God.

NOTES ON CHAP. VIII

Verse Hosea 8:1. Set the trumpet to thy mouth — Sound another alarm. Let them know that an enemy is fast approaching.

As an eagle against the house of the Lord — of this be a prophecy against Judah, as some have supposed, then by the eagle Nebuchadnezzar is meant, who is often compared to this king of birds. See Ezekiel 17:3; Jeremiah 48:40; Jeremiah 49:22; Daniel 7:4.

But if the prophecy be against Israel, which is the most likely, then Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, is intended, who, for his rapidity, avarice, rapacity, and strength, is fitly compared to this royal bird. He is represented here as hovering over the house of God, as the eagle does over the prey which he has just espied, and on which he is immediately to pounce.