Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 5:4

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 5:4 - 5:4

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 5:4 - 5:4

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5:1 - 5:1
5:2 - 5:2
5:3 - 5:3
5:4 - 5:4
5:5 - 5:5
5:6 - 5:6
5:7 - 5:7
5:8 - 5:8
5:9 - 5:9
5:10 - 5:10
5:11 - 5:11
5:12 - 5:12
5:13 - 5:13
5:14 - 5:14
5:15 - 5:15

They - Turning from a direct address to Ephraim, he uses the third person plural to characterize the people in general. The Hebrew is against the Margin, their doings will not suffer them” the omission of “them” in the Hebrew after the verb being unusual. The sense is, they are incurable, for they will not permit (as the Hebrew literally means) their doings to be framed so as to turn unto God. Implying that they resist the Spirit of God, not suffering Him to renew them; and give themselves up to “the spirit of whoredoms” (in antithesis to “the Spirit of God” implied in “suffer” or “permit”) (Hos 4:12; Isa 63:10; Eze 16:43; Act 7:51).