Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hosea 11:10

"They shall walk after Jehovah, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children shall come trembling from the west." — Hosea 11:10 (ASV)

He shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

God's formidable voice often makes people tremble, and that is one proof of the working of his grace in their hearts, for they tremble before him, and flee to him.

He shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

Even his roaring like a lion will only make them tremblingly come back to him.

They shall walk after the LORD:

It is a great blessing when people begin to seek the Lord whom they formerly shunned. This proves that there has been worked in them a complete change of heart.

They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion:

If God can make his people follow him when he roars like a lion, how we ought to follow him, who is the Lamb of God, that takes our sins upon him!

When he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

When God puts on the lion's form, and His grave, majestic voice is heard, full of thundering threatenings, then men are constrained and tremble.