I will chastise them, &c.— I will then chastise them, when they shall follow the counsel given them. That is, "I will make those very nations, whose aid they implore, the means of punishing them."
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Hosea 7:12
12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.