“ What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? ”
What will ye do in the solemn day? - Man is content to remain far from God, so that God do not show him, that He has withdrawn Himself from him. Man would fain have the power of drawing near to G...
What will ye do (f) in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? (f) When the Lord will take away all the occasions of serving him, which will be the most grievous part of your captiv...
The Joyless Discipline of Exile. The delirious joy of the popular nature-religion shall soon be exchanged for the sorrows of exile. In her own land Israel had treacherously ascribed to the Baalim t...
The Prophet here alludes again to their exile, and shows how deplorable the condition of the people would be, when deprived of all their sacrifices. It is indeed true that the Israelites, when...
What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? What will ye do in the solemn day - When ye shall be despoiled of every thing by the Assyrians; for the Israelites who rema...
What will ye do in the solemn day— "When the days of your feast shall come, and you shall find yourselves far from your own country, without temple, without prophets, without priests, without sacri...
What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord? ( Hosea 2:11 .)
Exile is at Hand This prophecy appears to have been written in a time of rejoicing over a good harvest and vintage. Israel need not rejoice, says the prophet, with the wild joy of the heathen. The...
See Note on Hosea 2:11 .
3. THE EFFECTS OF EXILE Hosea 9:1-9 Hosea now turns to describe the effects of exile upon the social and religious habits of the people. It must break up at once the joy and the sacredness of t...
“The Days of Recompense Are Come” Hosea 9:1-9 The subject of this chapter is the bitterness of the captivity which was awaiting Israel as the result of their unfaithfulness. Their exile would p...
The judgment was then described in detail. Its first note was of the death of joy. Israel could not find her joy like other peoples. She had gone whoring from God, loving hire on every threshing floo...
Reader, I beg of you to observe the Lord's grace still to Israel. How tenderly doth the Lord mourn over his captives, when beholding them void of ordinances. What will ye do, saith the Lord? If there...
What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord ?] Since their sacrifices now were so disagreeable and displeasing to the Lord, and so unavailable to themselves, what woul...
What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? Ver. 5. What will ye do in the solemn day, &c. ] q.d. How will ye do to laugh and leap then, as ye do now? Hosea...
What will ye do in the solemn day What will you do in your captivity, when any of your solemn or festival days come? When you shall find yourselves far from your own country, without temple, withou...
Threatenings of Judgment. B. C. 740. 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people...
Think with yourselves what you are likely to do then: on those days you were wont to cease from your labours, to offer sacrifices to God, (as you thought and said,) to feast with one another, all was...
Israel Must Not Rejoice At Their Harvest Feast Because Everything Will Shortly Be Taken From Them When They Are Exiled To Egypt/Assyria Because Of What They Have Become And Because Of How They Have...
CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 9:5 . Solemn day ] God “singles out the great festivals which commemorated his great doings for his people as though they had no more share in these mercies.” Sad to be de...
Hosea 9:1 . Rejoice not, oh Israel, with the shouts of harvest, and the songs of the vintage, as all heathen nations have done, and have ascribed their harvests to their idols; for God was about t...
What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord? Feasting after unaccepted sacrifice Calvin thinks the allusion is to the time of exile, when the people would be depr...
EXPOSITION Hosea 9:1-28 Contain a warning against security arising from temporary prosperity. Hosea 9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people. The occasion on which the pr...
Warning Against False Security
Hosea 2:11 ; Isaiah 10:3 ; Jeremiah 5:31 ; Joel 1:13
What will ye do — You will not then be suffered to observe any of them.