God the true husband exhorts Israel not to run barefoot, and with parched throat, like a shameless adulteress, after strangers.

There…

Withhold your foot. — From the brute types of passion, the prophet passes to the human. Here he has Hosea as giving a pro…

Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, tha…

The words of the Prophet, as they are concise, may appear at first view obscure; but his meaning is simply this: that the insane people could by no…

Withhold your foot from being unshod That it may not be unshod, be naked and bare. The sense is, either, as some, do not take long …

Despite all their advantages, Israel had become like the wild vine that bears poisonous fruit. People are often as much under the power of their un…

1. Here, he removes their excuses.

   1. They might bring up the neglect of the farmer. Against this, he says, I have planted…