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Hos_4:19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
Ver. 19. The wind hath bound her up in her wings] The evil spirit (saith Jerome) hurries them towards hell, which is the just hire of the least sin; how much more of these afore mentioned abominations! Take it rather to be spoken of the suddenness, swiftness, and unresistableness of God’s judgments, set forth by mighty winds rending the rocks, and tearing up the mountains by the roots, Job_38:9. How then shall wicked men (compared to chaff or "dust of the mountains") stand before the tempest of God’s wrath, the thunder of his power? Well they may applaud and stroke themselves for a time; but the wind shall bind them up in her wings; God shall blow them to destruction, Job_4:9 : his executioners have the "wings of a stork," large and long, and "wind in those wings," to note their ready obedience, Zec_5:9. And although, Eze_1:26, God be represented as sitting upon a throne to show his slowness to punish, yet that "throne hath wings and hands under those wings," to show his swiftness and readiness to do seasonable execution upon his enemies.
And they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices] Wherein they trusted, but now see themselves disappointed, their idols not able to help them. Then shall they cast their idols of silver and of gold, which they have made each for himself to worship, "to the moles and to the bats, to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks," Isa_2:20-21; see also Isa_30:22. If they be not thus ashamed of their former fopperies, they are the more to be pitied, Illum ego periisse dice cui periit pudor. He is an undone man that shames not, does not hesitate for his evil practices, that blusheth not, bleedeth not before God for them, lying down in his shame, Jer_3:25, as fully ashamed of his former hopes, Psa_119:116, which now he seeth how far they have abused him.