18So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
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When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-21)The prophet Hosea, in his time, observed that the two tribes retained their integrity, in a great measure, when the ten tribes had apostatized (Hos. 11:12; Ephraim indeed compasses me about with lies, but Judah yet rules with God and is faithful with the saints ; and this was justly expected from them: Hos. 4:15; Though thou Israel play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend ); but this lasted not l…
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