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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 14:3 - 14:3
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Three besetting sins of Israel are here renounced, trust in Assyria, application to Egypt for its cavalry (forbidden, Deu 17:16; compare Hos 7:11; Hos 11:5; Hos 12:1; 2Ki 17:4; Psa 33:17; Isa 30:2, Isa 30:16; Isa 31:1), and idolatry.
fatherless - descriptive of the destitute state of Israel, when severed from God, their true Father. We shall henceforth trust in none but Thee, the only Father of the fatherless, and Helper of the destitute (Psa 10:14; Psa 68:5); our nation has experienced Thee such in our helpless state in Egypt, and now in a like state again our only hope is Thy goodness.