Hosea 5:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ephraim; the whole kingdom of the ten tribes, all sorts and ranks of men among them. Shall be desolate; a desolation, i. e. most desolate, utterly cut off. In the day of rebuke; when Shalmaneser shall come up with his forces, besiege, sack, and captivate all thy cities, and Samaria with the rest; when by these Assyrians I shall rebuke, i.e. punish. Among the tribes of Israel, to the house of Israel openly, so that all might be informed, have I made known; by my prophets I have foretold what should be, and by some judgments already executed I have further made known to them; they are sufficiently warned, and should have considered in time, and prevented their own calamities. That which shall surely be; what is irrevocably determined and ratified, and they shall never evade, nor ever overcome.