Hosea 9:1-17
What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals, on the feast days of the Lord? Even if they escape from destruction, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers, and thorns will overrun their tents. The days of punishment are coming, the days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired person a maniac.The prophet, along with my God, is the watchman over Ephraim, yet snares await him on all his paths, and hostility in the house of his God. They have sunk deep into corruption, as in the days of Gibeah. God will remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins.
My God will reject them because they have not obeyed him; they will be wanderers among the nations.
It was probably at the height of the festival to mark the grape harvest that Hosea spoke out. The people may call him a fool, but he knows he is God's watchman, and he will not hold his tongue. Israel will become a slave nation to Assuria, as they once were to Egypt. Sin has become habitual, ingrained, to the point where God finally withdraws his love. Having wandered from God they will become wanderers among the nations. David Hubbard makes the sad point that 'from the time of Hosea's threat until the present the vast majority of Israel's sons and daughters have listed Diaspora as their address.
Why?
The days of punishment are coming, because of the sins of Israel.
The prophet, along with the Lord is the watchman over Ephraim, but people call him a fool. So they will be wanderers among the nations.
This is a sad destination because these people do not what they are doing.
When people turn to the world is dangerous, but they do not know and the selfish and proud full of their heart and mind.
How?
Keep my heart along with the Lord, May my heart and my mind always focus on the Lord, and keep my step along with the Lord.
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