Hosea 9:7 Meaning and Explanation
“The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →The time of reckoning has arrived; Israel mocks the true prophet as a fool, even as their own great sin and hostility prove the warning right.
What Does Hosea 9:7 Mean?
The prophet announces that the day of accounting is no longer distant but present. Israel will know it by experience. In their scorn they call the prophet a fool and the man of the Spirit a madman, dismissing the very messenger sent to save them. Yet their flood of iniquity and their fierce hostility show whose judgment was sound.
It is an old and sad pattern to despise the warning that might have healed. When a people are set on their course, the voice that tells them the truth sounds like folly to their ears. But the days of visitation come regardless, and they vindicate the word that was mocked. To listen humbly while there is time is wisdom; to wait until the reckoning teaches what the prophet could not is a hard way to learn.
Hosea 9:7 in the Original Language
pequddah (פְּקֻדָּה), 'visitation' -- a coming to inspect and to reckon, for either judgment or care.
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What does Hosea 9:7 mean?
The time of reckoning has arrived; Israel mocks the true prophet as a fool, even as their own great sin and hostility prove the warning right.