As they were increased, so they sinned Or, The more they were increased, the more they sinned against me The greater the favours were which I heaped upon them, and the more I multiplied them, the more presumptuously they sinned against me: see Hosea 13:6. Instead of, as they were increased, Bishop Horsley reads, In proportion as they were magnified, (a translation the Hebrew word, כרבם, will well bear,) “the priesthood,” he observes, “among the Jews was, by God's appointment, a situation of the highest rank and authority; and the complaint is, that, in proportion as they were raised in dignity and power above the rest of the people, they surpassed them in impiety.” Therefore will I change their glory into shame Therefore I will divest them of all those glories for which they pride themselves, and lead them away in a poor and miserable condition into captivity.
Related Commentaries of Hosea 4:7
Hosea 4:7
7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.