Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Foreigners sap his strength, but he does not realize it. His hair is sprinkled with gray, but he does not notice. New Living Translation Worshiping foreign gods has sapped their strength, but they don’t even know it. Their hair is gray, but they don’t realize they’re old and weak. English Standard Version Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not. Berean Standard Bible Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know. King James Bible Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. New King James Version Aliens have devoured his strength, But he does not know it; Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him, Yet he does not know it. New American Standard Bible Strangers devour his strength, Yet he does not know it; Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him, Yet he does not know it. NASB 1995 Strangers devour his strength, Yet he does not know it; Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him, Yet he does not know it. NASB 1977 Strangers devour his strength, Yet he does not know it; Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him, Yet he does not know it. Legacy Standard Bible Strangers devour his power, Yet he does not know it; Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him, Yet he does not know it. Amplified Bible Strangers have devoured his strength, Yet he does not know it; Gray hairs are sprinkled on him, Yet he does not know. Christian Standard Bible Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not notice. Holman Christian Standard Bible Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not notice. American Standard Version Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not. Aramaic Bible in Plain English In this way foreigners have consumed his power, and he did not know, and white hairs have come out on him and he did not know it Brenton Septuagint Translation Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew it not; and grey hairs came upon him, and he knew it not. Contemporary English Version They don't seem to realize how weak and feeble they are; their hair has turned gray, while foreigners rule. Douay-Rheims Bible Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knew it not: yea, grey hairs also are spread about upon him, and he is ignorant of it. English Revised Version Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not. GOD'S WORD® Translation Foreigners are using up your strength, but you don't realize it. You have become a gray-haired, old man, but you don't realize it. Good News Translation and do not realize that this reliance on foreigners has robbed them of their strength. Their days are numbered, but they don't even know it. International Standard Version Foreigners have consumed his strength, and he hasn't noticed. Furthermore, his head is sprinkled with gray hair, but he doesn't realize it. JPS Tanakh 1917 Strangers have devoured his strength, And he knoweth it not; Yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, And he knoweth it not. Literal Standard Version Strangers have devoured his power, | And he has not known, | Also old age has sprinkled [itself] on him, | And he has not known. Majority Standard Bible Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know. New American Bible Strangers have consumed his strength, but he does not know it; Gray hairs are strewn on his head, but he takes no notice of it. NET Bible Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced, but he does not recognize it! His head is filled with gray hair, but he does not realize it! New Revised Standard Version Foreigners devour his strength, but he does not know it; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, but he does not know it. New Heart English Bible Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn't realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn't realize it. Webster's Bible Translation Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yes, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. World English Bible Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it. Young's Literal Translation Devoured have strangers his power, And he hath not known, Also old age hath sprinkled itself on him, And he hath not known. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Ephraim's Iniquity…8Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake. 9Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know. 10Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him.… Cross References Isaiah 1:7 Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you--a desolation demolished by strangers. Isaiah 42:25 So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart. Isaiah 48:8 You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth. Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. Hosea 8:7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up. Treasury of Scripture Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knows it not: yes, gray hairs are here and there on him, yet he knows not. devoured. Hosea 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. 2 Kings 13:3-7,22 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days… 2 Kings 15:19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand. here and there. Jump to Previous Age Aliens Conscious Devour Devoured Foreigners Gray Grey Hair Hairs Indeed Itself Lands Power Realize Sap Sprinkled Strangers Strength WasteJump to Next Age Aliens Conscious Devour Devoured Foreigners Gray Grey Hair Hairs Indeed Itself Lands Power Realize Sap Sprinkled Strangers Strength WasteHosea 7 1. A reproof of manifold sins.11. God's wrath against them for their hypocrisy. (9) Have devoured.--The past tense may refer to the invasions of Tiglath-pileser. Both Egypt and Assyria had come to regard Israel as the earthen pipkin between iron pots. These strangers have devoured his strength--i.e., he has less power to resist aggression, less treasure, less land, smaller population. The signs of senility are upon him. "Grey hairs are his passing bell." He is under sentence of death, and knoweth it not.Verse 9. - Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not. Israel's intercourse with other nationalities could not but issue in disaster; a specimen of that disaster is here given. As the Greeks called all who did not speak the Greek language, whether they were savage or civilized, barbarians, so Israel called all foreigners, whether near or far off, strangers. The foreign nations here meant were those with which Israel had entered into treaties or formed alliances, in contravention of the constitution which God had given them. These nations, moreover, devoured their national resources by the imposition of taxes and hostile incursions; thus the King of Syria left "of the people to Jehoahaz only fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the King of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing;" again, when "Pul, the King of Assyria, came against the laud," we read that Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand. And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the King of Assyria;" then, "in the days of Pekah King of Israel came Tiglath-pileser King of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazer, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. "The strength here mentioned includes all those things which constitute the wealth and well-being of a country, the produce of the soil and the riches of its inhabitants. Thus Aben Ezra rightly explains this clause, referring it to "the tribute which the Israelites gave to Assyria and Egypt, as is written in the Book of Kings." Yea, grey hairs are here and there (margin, sprinkled) upon him. What from foreign foes and internal feuds, the body politic was manifesting unmistakable symptoms of decay and decrepitude and approaching dissolution, just as grey hairs on the human body give indication of the advance of old age, with its decay of strength and nearness to the tomb. "The course of nature," says Aben Ezra, "has sprinkled grey hairs upon him, just as grey hair comes on men in consequence of the course of nature;" this corresponds to the sentiment of the preceding clause, for, according to the commentator just named," the grey hair denotes that their power is weakened and their possession perished." Yet he knoweth not is parallel to. "And he knoweth (it) not," and repeats the same sentiment, of course with emphasis of what was Israel thus ignorant? Not, surely, of the declining state of the national strength and the decay of the national importance. After so many drains upon their resources and the unsatisfactory position of their foreign relations, they could not shut their eyes upon the steadily and even rapidly approaching decadence. But though they could not pretend ignorance of the fact, they remained in ignorance of the cause, its consequence, and the cure. Notwithstanding the already exhausted condition of their country, and the process of exhaustion still going on, they overlooked the lamentable cause of all, which was their sin, national and individual, in departing from the Lord; and at the same time the dangerous consequences that were neither remote nor capable of being staved off; as also the only possible cure to be found in direct and immediate return and application to that God from whom they had so revolted. The "it" supplied in the Authorized Version (1) had better be omitted; (2) the construction adopted by Rashi and others, who make the first part of each clause the object of the second, is erroneous, as we have shown in the preceding observations. "They took it not to heart that the kings of Syria consumed them in the days of Jehoahaz" is the exposition of Rashi just referred to; but that of Kimchi favors the first and correct construction, as may be inferred from the words, "And he (Israel) knows not that on account of his iniquity all this has come upon him, and yet he turns not from his wickedness." Hebrew Foreignersזָרִים֙ (zā·rîm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery consume אָכְל֤וּ (’ā·ḵə·lū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 398: To eat his strength, כֹּח֔וֹ (kō·ḥōw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 3581: A small reptile (of unknown species) but he וְה֖וּא (wə·hū) Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person masculine singular Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are does not לֹ֣א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no notice. יָדָ֑ע (yā·ḏā‘) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3045: To know Even גַּם־ (gam-) Conjunction Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and his hair is streaked זָ֣רְקָה (zā·rə·qāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 2236: Be here and there, scatter, sprinkle, strew with gray, שֵׂיבָה֙ (śê·ḇāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 7872: Hoary head, old age but he וְה֖וּא (wə·hū) Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person masculine singular Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are does not לֹ֥א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no realize. יָדָֽע׃ (yā·ḏā‘) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3045: To know Links Hosea 7:9 NIVHosea 7:9 NLT Hosea 7:9 ESV Hosea 7:9 NASB Hosea 7:9 KJV Hosea 7:9 BibleApps.com Hosea 7:9 Biblia Paralela Hosea 7:9 Chinese Bible Hosea 7:9 French Bible Hosea 7:9 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Hosea 7:9 Strangers have devoured his strength and he (Ho Hs Hos.) |
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