Hosea 7:15

Verse 15 of 16. The 7th of 14 chapters in Hosea, in The Minor Prophets.

11Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

12When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

13Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

15Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

16They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

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Hosea 7:15 in the World English Bible

Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.
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Matthew Henry on Hosea 7:15

He had bound and strengthened their arms, v. 15. When their power was weakened, like an arm broken or out of joint, God set it again, and bound it, as a surgeon does a broken bone, to make it knit. God had given Israel victories over the Syrians (2 Kings xiii. 16, 17), had restored their coast (2 Kings xiv. 25, 26), had girded them with strength for battle.

Read Matthew Henry on Hosea 7:8–16: The Crimes of the People; Infatuation of Ephraim; Ephraim's Obstinate Rebellion; Ephraim's Hypocrisy. (b. c. 750.)

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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.