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Hosea 7:11
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So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove;they call to Egypt, and they go to Assyria.
"Efrayim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Mitzrayim. They go to Ashshur.
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
So Ephraim has become like a gullible dove, without sense; They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Israel has become like a pigeon— easy to fool and stupid. First they call to Egypt for help. Then they run to Assyria.
Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without heart or good sense; They call to Egypt [for help], they go to Assyria.
Ephraim also is like a doue deceiued, without heart: they call to Egypt: they go to Asshur.
So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without sense; They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without a heart of wisdom;They call to Egypt; they go to Assyria.
So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove-calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.
The Lord said: Israel is a senseless bird, fluttering back and forth between Egypt and Assyria.
Efrayim behaves like a silly, foolish dove — going to Egypt, then to Ashur for help.
And Ephraim is become like a silly dove without understanding: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
So Ephraim has become like a silly dove without understanding. The people called to Egypt for help. They went to Assyria for help.
Ephraim also is like a young dove without understanding; they have come to Egypt, they are gone to Assyria.
Israel flits around like a silly pigeon; first her people call on Egypt for help, and then they run to Assyria!
Ephraim was like a dove, silly, without sense; they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart; they call to Egypt; they go to Assyria.
And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding: they call unto Egypt, they go to Assyria.
And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
And Ephraim is become like a silly dove, without understanding; they call unto Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Ephraim also is like a silly doue, without heart: they call to Egypt; they goe to Assyria.
Ephraim is like a doue that is begyled and hath no heart: nowe call they vpon the Egyptians, now go they to the Assyrians.
And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.
And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding: they call unto Egypt, they go to Assyria.
"Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.
And Effraym was maad as a culuer disseyued, not hauynge herte. Thei clepiden Egipt to help, thei yeden to Assiriens.
And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Ephraim has been like a dove, easily deceived and lacking discernment. They called to Egypt for help; they turned to Assyria for protection.
"The people of Israel have become like silly, witless doves, first calling to Egypt, then flying to Assyria for help.
Ephraim is like a foolish dove that is not able to think. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.
Ephraim has become like a dove, silly and without sense; they call upon Egypt, they go to Assyria.
So then, Ephraim, hath become, like a simple dove, having no understanding, on Egypt, have they called, to Assyria, have they gone,
And Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed, not having a heart: they called upon Egypt, they went to the Assyrians.
E'phraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on -- [to] Asshur they have gone.
Ephraim is like a doue, that is begyled, and hath no herte. Now call they vpon the Egipcians, now go they to the Assirians:
"Ephraim is bird-brained, mindless, clueless, First chirping after Egypt, then fluttering after Assyria. I'll throw my net over them. I'll clip their wings. I'll teach them to mind me! Doom! They've run away from home. Now they're really in trouble! They've defied me. And I'm supposed to help them while they feed me a line of lies? Instead of crying out to me in heartfelt prayer, they whoop it up in bed with their whores, Gash themselves bloody in their sex-and-religion orgies, but turn their backs on me. I'm the one who gave them good minds and healthy bodies, and how am I repaid? With evil scheming! They turn, but not to me— turn here, then there, like a weather vane. Their rulers will be cut down, murdered— just deserts for their mocking blasphemies. And the final sentence? Ridicule in the court of world opinion."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a silly: Hosea 11:11
without: Hosea 4:11, Proverbs 6:32, Proverbs 15:32, *marg. Proverbs 17:16
they call: Hosea 5:13, Hosea 8:8, Hosea 8:9, Hosea 9:3, Hosea 12:1, Hosea 14:3, 2 Kings 15:19, 2 Kings 17:3, 2 Kings 17:4, Isaiah 30:1-6, Isaiah 31:1-3, Jeremiah 2:18, Jeremiah 2:36, Ezekiel 23:4-8
Reciprocal: Job 5:2 - one Job 12:24 - He taketh Isaiah 30:4 - his princes Isaiah 57:9 - thou wentest to the king Jeremiah 5:21 - understanding Lamentations 5:6 - to the Egyptians Ezekiel 29:16 - the confidence
Cross-References
Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.
And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.
And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.
Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth.
Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth,
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.
And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.
So an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, "Look, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" And he said, "In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it."
Then that officer had answered the man of God, and said, "Now look, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?" And he had said, "In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without heart,.... Or understanding; which comes and picks up the corns of grain, which lie scattered about, and does not know that the net is spread for it; and when its young are taken away, it is unconcerned, and continues its nest in the same place still; and, when frightened, flees not to its dove house, where it would be safe, but flies about here and there, and so becomes a prey to others. Thus Ephraim, going to Egypt and Assyria for help, were ensnared by them, not having sense enough to perceive that this would be their ruin; and though they had heretofore suffered by them, yet still they continued to make their addresses to them; and instead of keeping close to the Lord, and to his worship and the place of it, and asking counsel and help of him they ran about and sought for it here and there:
they call to Egypt; that is, for help; as Hoshea king of Israel, when he sent messengers to So or Sabacon king of Egypt, for protection and assistance, 2 Kings 17:4. Such a foolish part, like the silly doves, did they act; since the Egyptians had been their implacable enemies, and their fathers had been in cruel bondage under them:
they go to Assyria; send gifts and presents, and pay tribute to the kings thereof, to make them easy; as Menahem did to Pul, and Hoshea to Shalmaneser, 2 Kings 15:19. Some understand this last clause, not of their sin in going to the Assyrian for help; but of their punishment in going or being carried captive thither; and so the Targum seems to interpret it,
"they go captive, or are carried captive, into Assyria.''
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Ephraim is - (become) like a silly dove “There is nothing more simple than a dove,” says the Eastern proverb. Simplicity is good or bad, not in itself, but according to some other qualities of the soul, good or evil, with which it is united, to which it opens the mind, and which lead it to good or mislead it to evil. The word describes one, easily persuaded, open, and so, one who takes God’s word simply, obeys His will, without refinement or subtlety or explaining it away; in which way it is said, “The Lord preserveth the simple;” or, on the other hand, one who lets himself easily be led to evil, as the pagan said of youth, that they were “like wax to be bent to evil” Psalms 116:6. In this way, it is said, “How long, ye simple one, will ye love simplicity?” Proverbs 1:22. Our Lord uses this likeness of the dove, for good, “be wise as serpents, simple, or harmless as doves” Matthew 10:16. Hosea speaks of simplicity without wisdom, for he adds, “a silly dove without understanding,” (literally, “without a heart,”) whereby they should love God’s will, and so should understand it. Ephraim “became,” he says, like a silly dove. Neglecting God’s calls, unmoved by calamity or sufferings, and not “seeking” to God “for all this” which He has done to recall them, they grew in folly. Man is ever “growing in wisdom” or in folly, in grace or in gracelessness. This new stage of folly lay in their flying to Assyria, to help them, in fact, against God; as it follows,
They call to Egypt - Instead of “calling to” God who could and would help, they “called to Egypt” who could not, and “went to Assyria” who would not. So God complains by Isaiah, “To Me, thou hast not called, O Jacob” Isaiah 43:22. This was their folly; they called not to God, who had delivered them out of Egypt, but, alternately, to their two powerful neighbors, of whom Egypt was a delusive promiser, not failing only, but piercing, those who leant on it; Assyria was a powerful oppressor. Yet what else is almost the whole history of Christian states? The “balance of power,” which has been the pride of the later policy of Europe, which has been idolized as a god, to which statesmen have looked, as a deliverance out of all their troubles; as if it were a sort of divine providence, regulating the affairs of human beings, and dispensing with the interference of God; what is it but the self-same wisdom, which balanced Egypt against Assyria?
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 7:11. Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart — A bird that has little understanding; that is easily snared and taken; that is careless about its own young, and seems to live without any kind of thought. It has been made, by those who, like itself, are without heart, the symbol of conjugal affection. Nothing worse could have been chosen, for the dove and its mate are continually quarrelling.
They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. — They strive to make these their allies and friends; but in this they showed that they were without heart, had not a sound understanding; for these were rival nations, and Israel could not attach itself to the one without incurring the jealousy and displeasure of the other. Thus, like the silly dove, they were constantly falling into snares; sometimes of the Egyptians, at others of the Assyrians. By the former they were betrayed; by the latter, ruined.
