Hosea 10:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Ye have plowed. Ye have sown. Heb, harashtem. Occurs, with this spelling, only here and Judges 14:18. The Massorah (App-30 and App-93) places it in an alphabetical list of words, occurring twice, with two different meanings (see Ginsburg's Massorah, vol. i, p. 498). It is therefore. Homonym with one meaning: ye have plowed (Judges 14:18); and another, ye have sown (Hosea 10:13).

wickedness. lawlessness. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44.

trust. confide. Hebrew. batah. App-69.

way. Septuagint reads "chariots". This corresponds with the next clause.

Hosea 10:13

13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.