Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hosea 11:5

"They shall not return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian shall be their king, because they refused to return [to me]." — Hosea 11:5 (ASV)

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

If we try to escape from our trouble without hearing the voice of God in it, we shall run into another; if, by our own plotting and scheming, we escape from Egypt, then the Assyrian shall be our king, and there is small choice between Assyria and Egypt. It is always best to take with submission the sorrow that God appoints, lest, by fleeing from the bear, the serpent bite us, and so we go from bad to worse.