Hosea 12:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

The LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

punish. visit upon.

Jacob. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for Israel, especially the natural seed.

according. Some codices, with two early printed editions (one Rabbinic, margin), Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and according".

recompense. requite, or repay.

Hosea 12:2

2 The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punisha Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.