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The days of visitation have come, the days of recompense have come. Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man who has the spirit is mad, for the abundance of your iniquity, and because the enmity is great.

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An End to Patience

Commentators agree that the phrase "the days of visitation are come" signals a decisive and unavoidable moment of reckoning. God's patience with Israel's persistent sin had reached its limit. The people, having ignored prophetic warnings, would now "know" the reality of judgment not through hearing, but through painful, firsthand experience.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

On Hosea 9:7

18th Century

Theologian

The days of visitation are come - The false prophets had continually deceived the people, promising them that those days would never come. <…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

On Hosea 9:7

19th Century

Bishop

The latter part of the verse should be translated Crazed is the prophet, mad the inspired one, because of the multitude of your iniquity, while…

John Calvin

John Calvin

On Hosea 9:7

16th Century

Theologian

The Prophet, by saying that the days of visitation had come, intended to shake off from hypocrites that complacent apathy of which we have often sp…

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John Gill

John Gill

On Hosea 9:7

17th Century

Pastor

The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come
In which the Lord would punish the people of Israel…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Hosea 9:7–10

17th Century

Minister

There was a time when the spiritual watchmen of Israel were with the Lord, but now they were like the snare of a fowler to entangle people to their…