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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 13:6 - 13:6
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Image from cattle, waxing wanton in abundant pasture (compare Hos 2:5, Hos 2:8; Deu 32:13-15). In proportion as I fed them to the full, they were so satiated that “their heart was exalted”; a sad contrast to the time when, by God’s blessing, Ephraim truly “exalted himself in Israel” (Hos 13:1).
therefore have they forgotten me - the very reason why men should remember God (namely, prosperity, which comes from Him) is the cause often of their forgetting Him. God had warned them of this danger (Deu 6:11, Deu 6:12).