15Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
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Commentary
Matthew Henry
(vv. 9-16)The first of these verses is the summary, or contents, of all the rest (Hos. 14:9), where we have, 1. All the blame of Israel’s ruin laid upon themselves: O Israel! thy perdition is thence ; it is of and from thyself; or, “ It has destroyed thee, O Israel ! that is, all that sin and folly of thine which thou art before charged with. As thy own wickedness has many a time corrected thee , so that ha...
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