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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. <a href="/nlt/hosea/9.htm">New Living Translation</a> The time of Israel’s punishment has come; the day of payment is here. Soon Israel will know this all too well. Because of your great sin and hostility, you say, “The prophets are crazy and the inspired men are fools!” <a href="/esv/hosea/9.htm">English Standard Version</a> The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred. <a href="/bsb/hosea/9.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived—let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility. <a href="/kjv/hosea/9.htm">King James Bible</a> The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. <a href="/nkjv/hosea/9.htm">New King James Version</a> The days of punishment have come; The days of recompense have come. Israel knows! The prophet is a fool, The spiritual man is insane, Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity. <a href="/nasb_/hosea/9.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> The days of punishment have come, The days of retribution have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, The inspired person is insane, Because of the grossness of your wrongdoing, And because your hostility is so great. <a href="/nasb/hosea/9.htm">NASB 1995</a> The days of punishment have come, The days of retribution have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, The inspired man is demented, Because of the grossness of your iniquity, And because your hostility is so great. <a href="/nasb77/hosea/9.htm">NASB 1977 </a> The days of punishment have come, The days of retribution have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, The inspired man is demented, Because of the grossness of your iniquity, And because your hostility is so great. <a href="/lsb/hosea/9.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> The days of punishment have come; The days of recompense have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is an ignorant fool, The inspired man has madness, Because of the abundance of your iniquity And because your hostility has abounded. <a href="/amp/hosea/9.htm">Amplified Bible</a> The days of punishment have come; The days of retribution are at hand; Let Israel know this! The prophet is [considered] a fool; The man [of God] who is inspired is [treated as if] demented, Because of the abundance of your wickedness and guilt, And because your deep antagonism [toward God and the prophets] is so great. <a href="/csb/hosea/9.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have come. Let Israel recognize it! The prophet is a fool, and the inspired man is insane, because of the magnitude of your iniquity and hostility. <a href="/hcsb/hosea/9.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have come. Let Israel recognize it! The prophet is a fool, and the inspired man is insane, because of the magnitude of your guilt and hostility. <a href="/asv/hosea/9.htm">American Standard Version</a> The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the spirit is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great. <a href="/cev/hosea/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Israel, the time has come. You will get what you deserve, and you will know it. "Prophets are fools," you say. "And God's messengers are crazy." Your terrible guilt has filled you with hatred. <a href="/erv/hosea/9.htm">English Revised Version</a> The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the spirit is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great. <a href="/gwt/hosea/9.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> The time for them to be punished will come. The time for them to pay for their sins will come. [When this happens,] Israel will know it. [They think that] prophets are fools and that spiritual people are crazy. They have sinned a lot, and they are very hostile. <a href="/gnt/hosea/9.htm">Good News Translation</a> The time for punishment has come, the time when people will get what they deserve. When that happens, Israel will know it! "This prophet," you say, "is a fool. This inspired man is insane." You people hate me so much because your sin is so great. <a href="/isv/hosea/9.htm">International Standard Version</a> The time for your judgment has now come; payday is here— and Israel knows it. The prophet is a fool, and the spiritual man is insane. Because of your great sin, the hatred against you is great. <a href="/msb/hosea/9.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived?let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility. <a href="/net/hosea/9.htm">NET Bible</a> The time of judgment is about to arrive! The time of retribution is imminent! Let Israel know! Israel Rejects Hosea's Prophetic Exhortations The prophet is considered a fool--the inspired man is viewed as a madman--because of the multitude of your sins and your intense animosity. <a href="/nheb/hosea/9.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Let Israel know. The prophet is a fool, and the man of the spirit is mad, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great. <a href="/wbt/hosea/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the great hatred. <a href="/web/hosea/9.htm">World English Bible</a> The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/hosea/9.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> The days of inspection have come in, "" The days of repayment have come in, Israel knows! The prophet [is] a fool, "" Mad [is] the man of the spirit, "" Because of the abundance of your iniquity, "" And great [is] the hatred. <a href="/ylt/hosea/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Come in have the days of inspection, Come in have the days of recompence, Israel doth know! a fool is the prophet, Mad is the man of the Spirit, Because of the abundance of thine iniquity, And great is the hatred. <a href="/slt/hosea/9.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> The days of oversight came, the days of recompense came; Israel knew: the prophet is foolish, the man of the spirit, raving, for the multitude of thine iniquity and great destruction.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/hosea/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness. <a href="/cpdv/hosea/9.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> The days of visitation have arrived; the days of retribution are here. Know this, Israel: that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, because of the multitude of your iniquities and the great extent of your foolishness. <a href="/nabre/hosea/9.htm">New American Bible</a> They have come, the days of punishment! they have come, the days of recompense! Let Israel know it! “The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad!” Because your iniquity is great, great, too, is your hostility. <a href="/nrsvce/hosea/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> The days of punishment have come, the days of recompense have come; Israel cries, “The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad!” Because of your great iniquity, your hostility is great.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/hosea/9.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> The days of vengeance have come, the days of recompense are near; then Israel shall know it; the prophet is a fool, a dull man possessed by a spirit of stupidity; because of the multitude of your iniquity, your lasciviousness has been increased. <a href="/hpbt/hosea/9.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> The days of vengeance have arrived; the days of payment have approached; Israel shall know the Prophet is a fool; a man is a madman for the evil in him; the spirit of insanity from the abundance of your evil made your debauchery to super abound<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/hosea/9.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> The days of visitation are come, The days of recompense are come, Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad! For the multitude of thine iniquity, the enmity is great. <a href="/sep/hosea/9.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> The days of vengeance are come, the days of thy recompense are come; and Israel shall be afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man deranged: by reason of the multitude of thine iniquities thy madness has abounded. <a href="/parallel/hosea/9-7.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=1338" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/hosea/9.htm">Hosea Announces Israel's Punishment</a> …6For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents. 7<a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yə·mê (N-mpc) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">The days</a> <a href="/hebrew/6486.htm" title="6486: hap·pə·qud·dāh (Art:: N-fs) -- Oversight, mustering, visitation, store. Feminine passive participle of paqad; visitation.">of punishment</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: bā·’ū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">have come;</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yə·mê (N-mpc) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">the days</a> <a href="/hebrew/7966.htm" title="7966: ha·šil·lum (Art:: N-ms) -- Requital. Or shillum; from shalam; a requital, i.e. retribution, a fee.">of retribution</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: bā·’ū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">have arrived—</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">let Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/3045.htm" title="3045: yê·ḏə·‘ū (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp) -- A primitive root; to know; used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially.">know it.</a> <a href="/hebrew/5030.htm" title="5030: han·nā·ḇî (Art:: N-ms) -- A spokesman, speaker, prophet. From naba'; a prophet or inspired man.">The prophet</a> <a href="/hebrew/191.htm" title="191: ’ĕ·wîl (N-ms) -- Foolish. From an unused root; silly.">is called a fool,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7307.htm" title="7307: hā·rū·aḥ (Art:: N-cs) -- Breath, wind, spirit. From ruwach; wind; by resemblance breath.">and the inspired</a> <a href="/hebrew/376.htm" title="376: ’îš (N-msc) -- Man. Contracted for 'enowsh; a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term.">man</a> <a href="/hebrew/7696.htm" title="7696: mə·šug·gā‘ (V-Pual-Prtcpl-ms) -- To be mad. A primitive root; to rave through insanity.">insane,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">because of</a> <a href="/hebrew/7230.htm" title="7230: rōḇ (N-msc) -- Multitude, abundance, greatness. From rabab; abundance.">the greatness</a> <a href="/hebrew/5771.htm" title="5771: ‘ă·wō·nə·ḵā (N-csc:: 2ms) -- Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity. Or oavown; from avah; perversity, i.e. evil.">of your iniquity</a> <a href="/hebrew/7227.htm" title="7227: wə·rab·bāh (Conj-w:: Adj-fs) -- Much, many, great. By contracted from rabab; abundant."></a> <a href="/hebrew/4895.htm" title="4895: maś·ṭê·māh (N-fs) -- Animosity. From the same as shotet; enmity.">and hostility.</a> 8The prophet is Ephraim’s watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God!…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/jeremiah/14-18.htm">Jeremiah 14:18</a> If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’” <a href="/isaiah/29-9.htm">Isaiah 29:9-10</a> Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink. / For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers. <a href="/amos/8-11.htm">Amos 8:11-12</a> Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. / People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it. <a href="/lamentations/2-14.htm">Lamentations 2:14</a> The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading. <a href="/ezekiel/13-3.htm">Ezekiel 13:3-4</a> This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit yet have seen nothing. / Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes among the ruins. <a href="/micah/3-6.htm">Micah 3:6-7</a> Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them. / Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.” <a href="/2_kings/17-13.htm">2 Kings 17:13</a> Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.” <a href="/jeremiah/23-16.htm">Jeremiah 23:16</a> This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD. <a href="/matthew/23-34.htm">Matthew 23:34</a> Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town. <a href="/luke/11-49.htm">Luke 11:49</a> Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’ <a href="/1_corinthians/1-20.htm">1 Corinthians 1:20</a> Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? <a href="/2_timothy/3-1.htm">2 Timothy 3:1-5</a> But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. / For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, / unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, ... <a href="/2_peter/2-1.htm">2 Peter 2:1</a> Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. <a href="/1_john/4-1.htm">1 John 4:1</a> Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world. <a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm">Isaiah 28:7</a> These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of your iniquity, and the great hatred.days of visitation.<a href="/isaiah/10-3.htm">Isaiah 10:3</a> And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?<a href="/jeremiah/10-15.htm">Jeremiah 10:15</a> They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.<a href="/jeremiah/11-23.htm">Jeremiah 11:23</a> And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.Israel.<a href="/isaiah/26-11.htm">Isaiah 26:11</a> LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.<a href="/ezekiel/25-17.htm">Ezekiel 25:17</a> And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.<a href="/ezekiel/38-23.htm">Ezekiel 38:23</a> Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.the prophet.<a href="/hosea/9-8.htm">Hosea 9:8</a> The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.<a href="/jeremiah/6-14.htm">Jeremiah 6:14</a> They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.<a href="/jeremiah/8-11.htm">Jeremiah 8:11</a> For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.spiritual man.<a href="/2_kings/9-11.htm">2 Kings 9:11</a> Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.<a href="/jeremiah/29-26.htm">Jeremiah 29:26</a> The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.<a href="/mark/3-21.htm">Mark 3:21</a> And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.the multitude.<a href="/ezekiel/14-9.htm">Ezekiel 14:9,10</a> And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel… <a href="/2_thessalonians/2-10.htm">2 Thessalonians 2:10-12</a> And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/4-7.htm">Abundance</a> <a href="/hosea/7-2.htm">Consider</a> <a href="/ezekiel/35-5.htm">Enmity</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-11.htm">Fool</a> <a href="/hosea/7-11.htm">Foolish</a> <a href="/hosea/8-14.htm">Great</a> <a href="/daniel/7-27.htm">Greatness</a> <a href="/ezekiel/35-11.htm">Hatred</a> <a href="/hosea/8-7.htm">Head</a> <a href="/ezekiel/35-5.htm">Hostility</a> <a href="/hosea/8-13.htm">Iniquity</a> <a href="/psalms/34-1.htm">Insane</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-11.htm">Inspection</a> <a href="/proverbs/16-10.htm">Inspired</a> <a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-7.htm">Mad</a> <a href="/daniel/12-3.htm">Multitude</a> <a href="/hosea/4-5.htm">Prophet</a> <a href="/hosea/8-13.htm">Punishment</a> <a href="/hosea/5-9.htm">Reckoning</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-64.htm">Recompence</a> <a href="/hosea/4-9.htm">Recompense</a> <a href="/isaiah/59-18.htm">Retribution</a> <a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">Reward</a> <a href="/hosea/4-19.htm">Shame</a> <a href="/hosea/8-13.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/hosea/5-4.htm">Spirit</a> <a href="/1_peter/2-5.htm">Spiritual</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-18.htm">Visitation</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/hosea/10-1.htm">Abundance</a> <a href="/haggai/1-5.htm">Consider</a> <a href="/hosea/9-8.htm">Enmity</a> <a href="/matthew/5-22.htm">Fool</a> <a href="/hosea/10-4.htm">Foolish</a> <a href="/hosea/9-8.htm">Great</a> <a href="/micah/5-4.htm">Greatness</a> <a href="/hosea/9-8.htm">Hatred</a> <a href="/joel/3-4.htm">Head</a> <a href="/hosea/9-8.htm">Hostility</a> <a href="/hosea/9-9.htm">Iniquity</a> <a href="/mark/3-21.htm">Insane</a> <a href="/luke/19-44.htm">Inspection</a> <a href="/matthew/22-43.htm">Inspired</a> <a href="/hosea/9-10.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/john/10-20.htm">Mad</a> <a href="/hosea/10-1.htm">Multitude</a> <a href="/hosea/9-8.htm">Prophet</a> <a href="/hosea/10-4.htm">Punishment</a> <a href="/matthew/12-36.htm">Reckoning</a> <a href="/joel/3-4.htm">Recompence</a> <a href="/hosea/12-2.htm">Recompense</a> <a href="/joel/3-4.htm">Retribution</a> <a href="/hosea/10-10.htm">Reward</a> <a href="/hosea/9-10.htm">Shame</a> <a href="/hosea/9-9.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/joel/2-28.htm">Spirit</a> <a href="/john/4-23.htm">Spiritual</a> <a href="/micah/7-4.htm">Visitation</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 9</div>1. <a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hosea/9.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hosea/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/hosea/9.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>The days of punishment have come; This phrase indicates a time of divine judgment. In the context of Hosea, this refers to the impending judgment on Israel due to their persistent idolatry and unfaithfulness to God. Historically, this aligns with the period leading up to the Assyrian conquest of Israel in 722 BC. Theologically, it reflects the principle that God’s patience has limits when His people continually reject His covenant.the days of retribution have arrived— Retribution here implies a just recompense for Israel's sins. The concept of retribution is consistent with the covenantal curses outlined in <a href="/deuteronomy/28.htm">Deuteronomy 28</a>, where disobedience leads to specific consequences. This serves as a warning that God’s justice will be executed, fulfilling the prophetic warnings given through His prophets.let Israel know it. This is a call for awareness and acknowledgment of the seriousness of their situation. It emphasizes the need for Israel to recognize the reality of their impending judgment. The phrase suggests that despite the warnings, Israel has been oblivious or dismissive of the consequences of their actions.The prophet is called a fool, Prophets in Israel were often ridiculed or dismissed, especially when their messages were unpopular. This reflects a cultural tendency to reject divine messages that challenge the status quo or call for repentance. The term "fool" here is used derogatorily, indicating a lack of respect for the prophet’s role as God’s messenger.and the inspired man insane, This phrase highlights the contempt and disbelief faced by those who were genuinely inspired by God. The term "insane" suggests that the people viewed the prophet’s warnings as irrational or nonsensical. This mirrors the treatment of other prophets, such as Jeremiah, who were often persecuted for their messages.because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility. The "greatness of your iniquity" underscores the extent of Israel’s sin, which includes idolatry, social injustice, and covenant unfaithfulness. "Hostility" refers to their opposition to God and His messengers. This hostility is a recurring theme in the prophetic literature, where the people’s resistance to God’s word leads to their downfall. This phrase serves as a reminder of the consequences of turning away from God’s commands.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/h/hosea.htm">Hosea</a> A prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel, called by God to deliver messages of warning and hope to the Israelites. 2. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> The Northern Kingdom, often depicted in Hosea as unfaithful to God, engaging in idolatry and moral corruption. 3. <a href="/topical/p/prophet.htm">Prophet</a> In this context, refers to Hosea and other true prophets of God who were often disregarded or mocked by the people. 4. <a href="/topical/d/days_of_punishment_and_retribution.htm">Days of Punishment and Retribution</a> A period of divine judgment upon Israel due to their persistent sin and rebellion against God. 5. <a href="/topical/i/iniquity_and_hostility.htm">Iniquity and Hostility</a> The sinful behaviors and attitudes of the Israelites that led to their estrangement from God and the rejection of His prophets.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_sin.htm">The Consequences of Sin</a> Sin has real consequences, both spiritually and physically. Israel's iniquity led to divine punishment, reminding us of the seriousness of sin. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_the_prophet.htm">The Role of the Prophet</a> Prophets are often misunderstood and rejected. We must be discerning and open to God's messages, even when they challenge us. <a href="/topical/s/spiritual_blindness.htm">Spiritual Blindness</a> Israel's inability to recognize the truth highlights the danger of spiritual blindness. We must seek God's wisdom to see clearly. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_repentance.htm">The Importance of Repentance</a> Despite the warnings, Israel failed to repent. We are called to examine our lives and turn back to God when we stray. <a href="/topical/g/god's_justice_and_mercy.htm">God's Justice and Mercy</a> While God is just in His punishment, His ultimate desire is for reconciliation and restoration. We should trust in His mercy and strive for holiness.<a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hosea/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(7) The latter part of the verse should be translated Crazed is the prophet, mad the inspired one, because of the multitude of thy iniquity, while persecution is increased. The prophet is crazed either in the depraved public opinion that Hosea scornfully describes, or, he is driven mad, distracted, by the persecutions to which he is subjected. The latter is more probable. (Comp. the following verse.) Other commentators, including Maurer and Hitzig (preceded by Jerome and many Jewish as well as Christian expositors) take the words for prophet in this verse as signifying "false prophet," and would connect the clauses thus:--"Israel shall recognise that the prophet (who prophesied good to them) is a fool, the inspired one a madman, because of," &c. But it is doubtful whether the Hebrew for "inspired one" (ish har-ach) can bear this unfavourable sense, with the definite article affixed (comp. <a href="/1_kings/22-21.htm" title="And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.">1Kings 22:21</a>, Heb.); so Nowack. The passage is very difficult, and no decisive superiority can be claimed for any rendering yet proposed.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verses 7-9. - These verses describe the season and source of punishment. The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come. Commentators have appropriately compared the Vergilian "Venit summa dies, et irreluctabile tempus," equivalent to" The final day and inevitable hour is come." Israel shall know (it): the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad. Here the prophet and the man of the spirit (margin) are (1) the false prophets which pretended to inspiration, and flattered the people with false hopes and vain promises of safety and prosperity; and thus helped to confirm them in their sinful courses. The object of Israel's knowledge, though not introduced by ki, is the folly of such false prophets, and the madness of such pretenders to prophetic inspiration. That ish ruach may be used of a false prophet as well as of a true one is proved from ish holekh ruach, a man walking in the spirit, applied by <a href="/micah/2-11.htm">Micah 2:11</a> to one of these pretenders: "If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people." Israel is doomed to know by bitter experience the folly and madness of those prophets who deceived and duped the people by lies soon detected, and their own folly and madness in giving ear to the delusive prospects they held forth. This explanation agrees with Kimchi's comment: "Then shall they confess, and say to the prophets of lies, who had led them astray, and had said to them, Peace (in time of greatest peril) - then shall they say unto them, A fool the prophet, a madman the man of spirit." The predicate precedes the subject for emphasis, and the article prefixed to the subject exhausts the class of those false prophets. (2) Aben Ezra, Ewald, and many others understand the prophet and spiritual man to mean true prophets, which the people called fools and madmen, and treated is such, contemning and persecuting them. Thus Aben Ezra: "The days of recompense are come to you from God, who will recompense you who said to the prophet of God, He is a fool, and to the man in whom the spirit of God was, He is mad." The word meshuggah is properly the participle Paul used as a substantive, and kindred in meaning to μάντις of the Greek, from μαίνομαι, to be frenzied. In confirmation of (1) setup. <a href="/ezekiel/13-10.htm">Ezekiel 13:10</a> and <a href="/jeremiah/28-15.htm">Jeremiah 28:15</a>; and in favor of . . . <a href="/commentaries/hosea/9-7.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>The days יְמֵ֣י (yə·mê) Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day of punishment הַפְּקֻדָּ֗ה (hap·pə·qud·dāh) Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6486.htm">Strong's 6486: </a> Oversight, mustering, visitation, store have come; בָּ֣אוּ ׀ (bā·’ū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> To come in, come, go in, go the days יְמֵ֣י (yə·mê) Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day of retribution הַשִׁלֻּ֔ם‪‬ (ha·šil·lum) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7966.htm">Strong's 7966: </a> A requital, retribution, a fee have arrived— בָּ֚אוּ (bā·’ū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> To come in, come, go in, go let Israel יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc know it. יֵדְע֖וּ (yê·ḏə·‘ū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3045.htm">Strong's 3045: </a> To know The prophet הַנָּבִ֗יא (han·nā·ḇî) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5030.htm">Strong's 5030: </a> A spokesman, speaker, prophet is [called] a fool, אֱוִ֣יל (’ĕ·wîl) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_191.htm">Strong's 191: </a> Foolish and the inspired הָר֔וּחַ (hā·rū·aḥ) Article | Noun - common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7307.htm">Strong's 7307: </a> Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit man אִ֣ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_376.htm">Strong's 376: </a> A man as an individual, a male person insane, מְשֻׁגָּע֙ (mə·šug·gā‘) Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7696.htm">Strong's 7696: </a> To rave through insanity because of עַ֚ל (‘al) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against the greatness רֹ֣ב (rōḇ) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7230.htm">Strong's 7230: </a> Multitude, abundance, greatness of your iniquity עֲוֺנְךָ֔ (‘ă·wō·nə·ḵā) Noun - common singular construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5771.htm">Strong's 5771: </a> Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity and hostility. מַשְׂטֵמָֽה׃ (maś·ṭê·māh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4895.htm">Strong's 4895: </a> Animosity <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/9-7.htm">Hosea 9:7 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/hosea/9-7.htm">Hosea 9:7 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/hosea/9-7.htm">Hosea 9:7 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/hosea/9-7.htm">Hosea 9:7 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/hosea/9-7.htm">Hosea 9:7 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/9-7.htm">Hosea 9:7 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/9-7.htm">Hosea 9:7 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/9-7.htm">Hosea 9:7 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/9-7.htm">Hosea 9:7 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/hosea/9-7.htm">Hosea 9:7 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/hosea/9-7.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 9:7 The days of visitation have come (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/9-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 9:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 9:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/9-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 9:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 9:8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>