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Hosea 8:8
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Israel is swallowed up!Now they are among the nationslike discarded pottery.
Yisra'el is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
Israel has been swallowed up; They are now among the nations Like a vessel in which no one delights.
Israel is eaten up; the people are mixed among the other nations and have become useless to me.
Israel is [as if] swallowed up [by enemies]; They are now among the nations Like a vessel [of cheap, coarse pottery] that is useless.
Israel is deuoured, now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessell wherein is no pleasure.
Israel is swallowed up; They are now among the nations Like a vessel in which no one delights.
Israel is swallowed up;They are now among the nationsLike a vessel in which no one delights.
Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.
Israel, you are ruined, and now the nations consider you worthless.
Isra'el is swallowed up; now they are among the Goyim like a vessel nobody wants.
Israel is swallowed up: now are they become among the nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
"Israel was destroyed; its people are scattered among the nations, like some dish that was thrown away because no one wanted it.
Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no use.
Israel has become like any other nation and is as useless as a broken pot.
Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations, like an object that no one desires.
Israel is swallowed up. They are now among the nations as a vessel in which is no pleasure.
Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein none delighteth.
Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.
Israel is swallowed up; now are they become among the nations as a vessel wherein is no value.
Israel is swallowed vp, now shal they be among the Gentiles, as a vessell wherein is no pleasure.
Israel is deuoured, nowe shall they be among the gentiles as a vessell of no reputation.
Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations as a worthless vessel.
Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
Israel is deuouryd; now Israel is maad as an vnclene vessel among naciouns,
Israel is swallowed up: now they are among the nations as a vessel wherein none delights.
Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which [is] no pleasure.
Israel will be swallowed up among the nations; they will be like a worthless piece of pottery.
Israel is swallowed up; Now they are among the Gentiles Like a vessel in which is no pleasure.
The people of Israel have been swallowed up; they lie among the nations like an old discarded pot.
"Israel is eaten up. They are now among the nations like a pot that is of no worth.
Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations as a useless vessel.
Swallowed up, is Israel; Now, have they gone among the nations, like a vessel in which no man taketh, delight.
Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an unclean vessel.
Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.
Israel hath been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.
Israel shall perish, the Gentiles shall entreate him as a foule vessel.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
swallowed: 2 Kings 17:1-6, 2 Kings 18:11, Jeremiah 50:17, Jeremiah 51:34, Lamentations 2:2, Lamentations 2:5, Lamentations 2:16, Ezekiel 36:3
among: Leviticus 26:33, Deuteronomy 28:25, Deuteronomy 28:64
a vessel: Isaiah 30:14, Jeremiah 22:28, Jeremiah 48:38, Romans 9:22, 2 Timothy 2:20, 2 Timothy 2:21
Reciprocal: Job 20:18 - swallow Psalms 56:1 - swallow Isaiah 9:14 - will cut Isaiah 17:3 - fortress Lamentations 1:17 - commanded Hosea 5:9 - Ephraim Hosea 7:11 - they call Romans 9:21 - one vessel
Cross-References
He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.
Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.
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Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the crannies of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.
"Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Israel is swallowed up,.... Not only their substance, but their persons also, the whole nation of them, their whole estate, civil and ecclesiastic: it notes the utter destruction of them by the Assyrians, so that nothing of them and theirs remained; just as anyone is swallowed up and devoured by a breast of prey; the present is put for the future, because of the certainty of it:
now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure; when Shalmaneser took Samaria, and with it swallowed up the whole kingdom of Israel, he carried captive the inhabitants of it, and placed them among the nations, in "Halah, Habor, by the river Gozan", and in the cities of the Medes, 2 Kings 17:6; where they lived poor, mean, and abject, and were treated with the utmost neglect and contempt; no more regarded than a broken useless vessel, or than a vessel of dishonour, that is made and used for the ease of nature, for which no more regard is had than for that service: thus idolaters, who dishonour God by their idolatries, shall, sooner or later, be brought to disgrace and dishonour themselves.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Israel is swallowed up - Not only shall all which they have, be swallowed up by the enemy, but themselves also; and this, not at any distant time, but “now.” “Now,” at a time all but present, “they shall be among the Gentiles, as a vessel wherein is no pleasure,” or, quite strictly, “Now they have become, among the Gentiles.” He speaks of what should certainly be, as though it already were. “A vessel wherein is no pleasure,” is what Paul calls “a vessel to dishonor” 2 Timothy 2:20, as opposed to “vessels to honor” or honorable uses. It is then some vessel put to vile uses, such as people turn away from with disgust. Such has been the history of the ten tribes ever since: “swallowed up,” not destroyed; “among” the nations, yet not of them; despised and mingled among them, yet not united with them; having an existence, yet among that large whole, “the nations,” in whom their national existence has been at once preserved and lost; everywhere had in dishonor; the Pagan and the Muslim have alike despised, outraged, insulted them; avenging upon them, unconsciously, the dishonor which they did to God. The Jews were treated by the Romans of old as offensive to the smell, and are so by the Muslims of North Africa still. “Never,” says a writer of the fifth century , “has Israel been put to any honorable office, so as, after losing the marks of freedom and power, at least to have the rank of honorable servitude; but, like a vessel made for dishonorable offices, so they have been filled with revolting contumelies.” “The most despised of those in servitude” was the title given by the Roman historian to the Jews, while yet in their own land.
Wealth, otherwise so coveted, for the most part has not exempted them from dishonor, but exposed them to outrage. individuals have risen to eminence in philosophy, medicine, finance; but the race has not gained through the credit of its members; rather, these have, for the most part, risen to reputation for intellect, amid the wreck of their own faith. When Hosea wrote this, two centuries had passed, since the fame of Solomon’s wisdom (which still is venerated in the East) spread far and wide; Israel was hated and envied by its neighbors, not despised; no token of contempt yet attached to them; yet Hosea foretold that it should shortly be; and, for two thousand years, it has, in the main, been the characteristic of their nation.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 8:8. Now shall they be among the Gentiles — They shall be carried into captivity, and there be as a vessel wherein there is no pleasure; one soiled, unclean, infectious, to be despised, abhorred, not used. The allusion is to a rotten, corrupted skin-bottle; a bottle made of goat, deer, or calf hide, still commonly used in Asia and Africa. Some of them are splendidly ornamented. This is the case with one now before me made of a goat's skin well dressed, variously painted, and ornamented with leather fringes, tassels, c. In such a bottle there might be pleasure but the Israelites are compared to such a bottle, rough, ill-dressed, not ornamented, old, musty, and putrid. This shows the force of the comparison.
