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Verse	Translation	Text
Ho 9:7	Strong Concordance	The days [03117] of visitation [06486] are come [0935], the days [03117] of recompence [07966] are come [0935]; Israel [03478] shall know [03045] it: the prophet [05030] is a fool [0191], the spiritual [07307] man [0376] is mad [07696], for the multitude [07230] of thine iniquity [05771], and the great [07227] hatred [04895].
	King James	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.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
visitation--vengeance: punishment (Isa 10:3). Israel shall know it--to her cost experimentally (Isa 9:9). the prophet is a fool--The false prophet who foretold prosperity to the nation shall be convicted of folly by the event. the spiritual man--the man pretending to inspiration (Lam 2:14; Eze 13:3; Mic 3:11; Zep 3:4). for the multitude of thine iniquity, &c.--Connect these words with, "the days of visitation . . . are come"; "the prophet . . . is mad," being parenthetical. the great hatred--or, "the great provocation" [HENDERSON]; or, "(thy) great apostasy" [MAURER]. English Version means Israel's "hatred" of God's prophets and the law.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

visitation--vengeance: punishment (Isa 10:3).

Israel shall know it--to her cost experimentally (Isa 9:9).

the prophet is a fool--The false prophet who foretold prosperity to the nation shall be convicted of folly by the event.

the spiritual man--the man pretending to inspiration (Lam 2:14; Eze 13:3; Mic 3:11; Zep 3:4).

for the multitude of thine iniquity, &c.--Connect these words with, "the days of visitation . . . are come"; "the prophet . . . is mad," being parenthetical.

the great hatred--or, "the great provocation" [HENDERSON]; or, "(thy) great apostasy" [MAURER]. English Version means Israel's "hatred" of God's prophets and the law.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
The days of visitation are come - The false prophets had continually hood-winked the people, promising them that those days would never come. "They had put far away the evil day" Amo 6:3. Now it was not at hand only. In God's purpose, those "days" were "come," irresistible, inevitable, inextricable; days in which God would visit, what in His long-suffering, He seemed to overlook, and would "recompense each according to his works." Israel shall know it - Israel would not know by believing it; now it should "know," by feeling it. The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad - The true prophet gives to the false the title which they claimed for themselves, "the prophet" and "the man of the spirit." Only the event showed what spirit was in them, not the spirit of God but a lying spirit. The people of the world called the true prophets, "mad," literally, maddened, "driven mad," , as Festus thought of Paul; "Thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad" Act 26:24. Jehu's captains called by the same name the young prophet whom Elisha sent to anoint him. "Wherefore came this mad fellow unto thee?" Kg2 9:11. Shemaiah, the false prophet, who deposed God's priest, set false priests to "be officers in the house of the Lord," to have an oversight as to "every man who is mad and maketh himself a prophet," calling Jeremiah both a false prophet and a "madman" (Jer 29:25-26. The word is the same). The event was the test. Of our Lord Himself, the Jews blaspbemed, "He hath a devil and is mad" Joh 10:20. And long afterward, "madness," "phrensy" were among the names which the pagan gave to the faith in Christ . As Paul says, that "Christ crucified" was "to the Greeks" and to "them that perish, foolishness," and that the "things of the Spirit of God, are foolishness to the natural man, neither can he know" them, "because they are spiritually discerned" Co1 1:18, Co1 1:23; Co1 2:14. The man of the world and the Christian judge of the same things by clean contrary rules, use them for quite contrary ends. The slave of pleasure counts him mad, who foregoes it; the wealthy trader counts him mad, who gives away profusely. In these days, profusion for the love of Christ has been counted a ground for depriving a man of the care of his property. One or the other is mad. And worldlings must count the Christian mad; else they must own themselves to be so most fearfully. In the Day of Judgment, Wisdom says, "They, repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit, shall say within themselves, This was he whom we had sometimes in derision and a proverb of reproach. We fools counted his life madness, and his end to be without honor. How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!" (Wisd. 5:3-6). For the multitude of thine iniquity and the great hatred - The words stand at the close of the verse, as the reason of all which had gone before. Their "manifold iniquity" and their "great hatred" of God were the ground why the "days of visitation" and "recompense" should "come." They were the ground also, why God allowed such prophets to delude them. The words, "the great hatred," stand quite undefined, so that they may signify alike the hatred of Ephraim against God and good people and His true prophets, or God's hatred of them. Yet it, most likely, means, "their" great hatred, since of them the prophet uses it again in the next verse. The sinner first neglects God; then, as the will of God is brought before him, he willfully disobeys Him; then, when, he finds God's will irreconcilably at variance with his own, or when God chastens him, he hates Him, and (the prophet speaks out plainly) "hates" Him "greatly."

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

The days of visitation are come - The false prophets had continually hood-winked the people, promising them that those days would never come. "They had put far away the evil day" Amo 6:3. Now it was not at hand only. In God's purpose, those "days" were "come," irresistible, inevitable, inextricable; days in which God would visit, what in His long-suffering, He seemed to overlook, and would "recompense each according to his works."

Israel shall know it - Israel would not know by believing it; now it should "know," by feeling it.

The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad - The true prophet gives to the false the title which they claimed for themselves, "the prophet" and "the man of the spirit." Only the event showed what spirit was in them, not the spirit of God but a lying spirit. The people of the world called the true prophets, "mad," literally, maddened, "driven mad," , as Festus thought of Paul; "Thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad" Act 26:24. Jehu's captains called by the same name the young prophet whom Elisha sent to anoint him. "Wherefore came this mad fellow unto thee?" Kg2 9:11. Shemaiah, the false prophet, who deposed God's priest, set false priests to "be officers in the house of the Lord," to have an oversight as to "every man who is mad and maketh himself a prophet," calling Jeremiah both a false prophet and a "madman" (Jer 29:25-26. The word is the same).

The event was the test. Of our Lord Himself, the Jews blaspbemed, "He hath a devil and is mad" Joh 10:20. And long afterward, "madness," "phrensy" were among the names which the pagan gave to the faith in Christ . As Paul says, that "Christ crucified" was "to the Greeks" and to "them that perish, foolishness," and that the "things of the Spirit of God, are foolishness to the natural man, neither can he know" them, "because they are spiritually discerned" Co1 1:18, Co1 1:23; Co1 2:14. The man of the world and the Christian judge of the same things by clean contrary rules, use them for quite contrary ends. The slave of pleasure counts him mad, who foregoes it; the wealthy trader counts him mad, who gives away profusely. In these days, profusion for the love of Christ has been counted a ground for depriving a man of the care of his property. One or the other is mad. And worldlings must count the Christian mad; else they must own themselves to be so most fearfully. In the Day of Judgment, Wisdom says, "They, repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit, shall say within themselves, This was he whom we had sometimes in derision and a proverb of reproach. We fools counted his life madness, and his end to be without honor. How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!" (Wisd. 5:3-6).

For the multitude of thine iniquity and the great hatred - The words stand at the close of the verse, as the reason of all which had gone before. Their "manifold iniquity" and their "great hatred" of God were the ground why the "days of visitation" and "recompense" should "come." They were the ground also, why God allowed such prophets to delude them. The words, "the great hatred," stand quite undefined, so that they may signify alike the hatred of Ephraim against God and good people and His true prophets, or God's hatred of them. Yet it, most likely, means, "their" great hatred, since of them the prophet uses it again in the next verse. The sinner first neglects God; then, as the will of God is brought before him, he willfully disobeys Him; then, when, he finds God's will irreconcilably at variance with his own, or when God chastens him, he hates Him, and (the prophet speaks out plainly) "hates" Him "greatly."

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
"The days of visitation are come, the days of retribution are come; Israel will learn: a fool the prophet, a madman the man of spirit, for the greatness of thy guilt, and the great enmity. Hos 9:8. A spy is Ephraim with my God: the prophet a snare of the bird-catcher in all his ways, enmity in the house of his God. Hos 9:9. They have acted most corruptly, as in the days of Gibeah: He remembers their iniquity, visits their sins." The perfects in Hos 9:7 are prophetic. The time of visitation and retribution is approaching. Then will Israel learn that its prophets, who only predicted prosperity and good (Eze 13:10), were infatuated fools. אויל וגו introduces, without kı̄, what Israel will experience, as in Hos 7:2; Amo 5:12. It does not follow, from the use of the expression 'ı̄sh rūăch, that the reference is to true prophets. 'Ish rūăch (a man of spirit) is synonymous with the 'ı̄sh hōlēkh rūăch (a man walking in the spirit) mentioned in Mic 2:11 as prophesying lies, and may be explained from the fact, that even the false prophets stood under the influence of a superior demoniacal power, and were inspired by a rūăch sheqer ("a lying spirit," Kg1 22:22). The words which follow, viz., "a fool is the prophet," etc., which cannot possibly mean, that men have treated, despised, and persecuted the prophets as fools and madmen, are a decisive proof that the expression does not refer to true prophets. על רב עונך is attached to the principal clauses, השּׁלּם ... בּאוּ. The punishment and retribution occur because of the greatness of the guilt of Israel. In ורבּה the preposition על continues in force, but as a conjunction: "and because the enmity is great" (cf. Ewald, 351, a). Mastēmâh, enmity, not merely against their fellow-men generally, but principally against God and His servants the true prophets. This is sustained by facts in Hos 9:8. The first clause, which is a difficult one and has been interpreted in very different ways, "spying is Ephraim עם אלהי" (with or by my God), cannot contain the thought that Ephraim, the tribe, is, according to its true vocation, a watchman for the rest of the people, whose duty it is to stand with the Lord upon the watch-tower and warn Israel when the Lord threatens punishment and judgment (Jerome, Schmidt); for the idea of a prophet standing with Jehovah upon a watch-tower is not only quite foreign to the Old Testament, but irreconcilable with the relation in which the prophets stood to Jehovah. The Lord did indeed appoint prophets as watchmen to His people (Eze 3:17); but He does take His own stand upon the watch-tower with them. Tsâphâh in this connection, where prophets are spoken of both before and after, can only denote the eager watching on the part of the prophets for divine revelations, as in Hab 2:1, and not their looking out for help; and עם אלהי cannot express their fellowship or agreement with God, if only on account of the suffix "my God," in which Hosea contrasts the true God as His own, with the God of the people. The thought indicated would require אלהיו, a reading which is indeed met with in some codices, but is only a worthless conjecture. עם denotes outward fellowship here: "with" = by the side of. Israel looks out for prophecies or divine revelations with the God of the prophet, i.e., at the side of Jehovah; in other words, it does not follow or trust its own prophets, who are not inspired by Jehovah. These are like snares of a bird-catcher in its road, i.e., they cast the people headlong into destruction. נביא stands at the head, both collectively and absolutely. In all its ways there is the trap of the bird-catcher: i.e., all its projects and all that it does will only tend to ensnare the people. Hostility to Jehovah and His servants the true prophets, is in the house of the God of the Israelites, i.e., in the temple erected for the calf-worship; a fact of which Amos (Amo 7:10-17) furnishes a practical example. Israel has thereby fallen as deeply into abomination and sins as in the days of Gibeah, i.e., as at the time when the abominable conduct of the men of Gibeah in connection with the concubine of a Levite took place, as related in Judg. 19ff., in consequence of which the tribe of Benjamin was almost exterminated. The same depravity on the part of Israel will be equally punished by the Lord now (cf. Hos 8:13).

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

"The days of visitation are come, the days of retribution are come; Israel will learn: a fool the prophet, a madman the man of spirit, for the greatness of thy guilt, and the great enmity. Hos 9:8. A spy is Ephraim with my God: the prophet a snare of the bird-catcher in all his ways, enmity in the house of his God. Hos 9:9. They have acted most corruptly, as in the days of Gibeah: He remembers their iniquity, visits their sins." The perfects in Hos 9:7 are prophetic. The time of visitation and retribution is approaching. Then will Israel learn that its prophets, who only predicted prosperity and good (Eze 13:10), were infatuated fools. אויל וגו introduces, without kı̄, what Israel will experience, as in Hos 7:2; Amo 5:12. It does not follow, from the use of the expression 'ı̄sh rūăch, that the reference is to true prophets. 'Ish rūăch (a man of spirit) is synonymous with the 'ı̄sh hōlēkh rūăch (a man walking in the spirit) mentioned in Mic 2:11 as prophesying lies, and may be explained from the fact, that even the false prophets stood under the influence of a superior demoniacal power, and were inspired by a rūăch sheqer ("a lying spirit," Kg1 22:22). The words which follow, viz., "a fool is the prophet," etc., which cannot possibly mean, that men have treated, despised, and persecuted the prophets as fools and madmen, are a decisive proof that the expression does not refer to true prophets. על רב עונך is attached to the principal clauses, השּׁלּם ... בּאוּ. The punishment and retribution occur because of the greatness of the guilt of Israel. In ורבּה the preposition על continues in force, but as a conjunction: "and because the enmity is great" (cf. Ewald, 351, a). Mastēmâh, enmity, not merely against their fellow-men generally, but principally against God and His servants the true prophets. This is sustained by facts in Hos 9:8. The first clause, which is a difficult one and has been interpreted in very different ways, "spying is Ephraim עם אלהי" (with or by my God), cannot contain the thought that Ephraim, the tribe, is, according to its true vocation, a watchman for the rest of the people, whose duty it is to stand with the Lord upon the watch-tower and warn Israel when the Lord threatens punishment and judgment (Jerome, Schmidt); for the idea of a prophet standing with Jehovah upon a watch-tower is not only quite foreign to the Old Testament, but irreconcilable with the relation in which the prophets stood to Jehovah. The Lord did indeed appoint prophets as watchmen to His people (Eze 3:17); but He does take His own stand upon the watch-tower with them. Tsâphâh in this connection, where prophets are spoken of both before and after, can only denote the eager watching on the part of the prophets for divine revelations, as in Hab 2:1, and not their looking out for help; and עם אלהי cannot express their fellowship or agreement with God, if only on account of the suffix "my God," in which Hosea contrasts the true God as His own, with the God of the people. The thought indicated would require אלהיו, a reading which is indeed met with in some codices, but is only a worthless conjecture. עם denotes outward fellowship here: "with" = by the side of. Israel looks out for prophecies or divine revelations with the God of the prophet, i.e., at the side of Jehovah; in other words, it does not follow or trust its own prophets, who are not inspired by Jehovah. These are like snares of a bird-catcher in its road, i.e., they cast the people headlong into destruction. נביא stands at the head, both collectively and absolutely. In all its ways there is the trap of the bird-catcher: i.e., all its projects and all that it does will only tend to ensnare the people. Hostility to Jehovah and His servants the true prophets, is in the house of the God of the Israelites, i.e., in the temple erected for the calf-worship; a fact of which Amos (Amo 7:10-17) furnishes a practical example. Israel has thereby fallen as deeply into abomination and sins as in the days of Gibeah, i.e., as at the time when the abominable conduct of the men of Gibeah in connection with the concubine of a Levite took place, as related in Judg. 19ff., in consequence of which the tribe of Benjamin was almost exterminated. The same depravity on the part of Israel will be equally punished by the Lord now (cf. Hos 8:13).

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
The prophet - The false prophet. The spiritual man - That pretends to be full of the spirit of prophecy. For thine iniquity - God began his punishments in giving them over to believe their false prophets. The great hatred - Which God had against your sins.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
The days of visitation - Of punishment are come. The prophet is a fool - Who has pretended to foretell, on Divine authority, peace and plenty; for behold all is desolation. The spiritual man - איש הרוח ish haruach, the man of spirit, who was ever pretending to be under a Divine afflatus. Is mad - He is now enraged to see every thing falling out contrary to his prediction.

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⁴ Her prophets [05030] are light [06348] and treacherous [0900] persons [0582]: her priests [03548] have polluted [02490] the sanctuary [06944], they have done violence [02554] to the law [08451].

¹¹ The heads [07218] thereof judge [08199] for reward [07810], and the priests [03548] thereof teach [03384] for hire [04242], and the prophets [05030] thereof divine [07080] for money [03701]: yet will they lean [08172] upon the LORD [03068], and say [0559], Is not the LORD [03068] among [07130] us? none evil [07451] can come [0935] upon us.

³ Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; Woe [01945] unto the foolish [05036] prophets [05030], that follow [01980] [0310] their own spirit [07307], and have seen [07200] nothing!

¹⁴ Thy prophets [05030] have seen [02372] vain [07723] and foolish things [08602] for thee: and they have not discovered [01540] thine iniquity [05771], to turn away [07725] thy captivity [07622] [07622]; but have seen [02372] for thee false [07723] burdens [04864] and causes of banishment [04065].

⁹ And all the people [05971] shall know [03045], even Ephraim [0669] and the inhabitant [03427] of Samaria [08111], that say [0559] in the pride [01346] and stoutness [01433] of heart [03824],

³ And what will ye do [06213] in the day [03117] of visitation [06486], and in the desolation [07722] which shall come [0935] from far [04801]? to whom will ye flee [05127] for help [05833]? and where will ye leave [05800] your glory [03519]?

¹⁴ But [1161] the natural [5591] man [444] receiveth [1209] not [3756] the things [3588] of the Spirit [4151] of God [2316]: for [1063] they are [2076] foolishness [3472] unto him [846]: neither [2532] [3756] can [1410] he know [1097] them, because [3754] they are spiritually [4153] discerned [350].

²³ But [1161] we [2249] preach [2784] Christ [5547] crucified [4717], unto the Jews [2453] a stumblingblock [3303] [4625], and [1161] unto the Greeks [1672] foolishness [3472];

¹⁸ For [1063] the preaching [3056] of the cross [4716] is [2076] to them [3303] that perish [622] foolishness [3472]; but [1161] unto us [2254] which are saved [4982] it is [2076] the power [1411] of God [2316].

²⁰ And [1161] many [4183] of [1537] them [846] said [3004], He hath [2192] a devil [1140], and [2532] is mad [3105]; why [5101] hear ye [191] him [846]?

²⁵ Thus speaketh [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], the God [0430] of Israel [03478], saying [0559], Because thou hast sent [07971] letters [05612] in thy name [08034] unto all the people [05971] that are at Jerusalem [03389], and to Zephaniah [06846] the son [01121] of Maaseiah [04641] the priest [03548], and to all the priests [03548], saying [0559],
²⁶ The LORD [03068] hath made [05414] thee priest [03548] in the stead of Jehoiada [03077] the priest [03548], that ye should be officers [06496] in the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], for every man [0376] that is mad [07696], and maketh himself a prophet [05012], that thou shouldest put [05414] him in prison [04115], and in the stocks [06729].

¹¹ Then Jehu [03058] came forth [03318] to the servants [05650] of his lord [0113]: and one said [0559] unto him, Is all well [07965]? wherefore came [0935] this mad [07696] fellow to thee? And he said [0559] unto them, Ye know [03045] the man [0376], and his communication [07879].

²⁴ And [1161] as he [846] thus [5023] spake for himself [626], Festus [5347] said [5346] with a loud [3173] voice [5456], Paul [3972], thou art beside thyself [3105]; much [4183] learning [1121] doth make [4062] thee [4571] mad [1519] [3130].

³ Ye that put far away [05077] the evil [07451] day [03117], and cause the seat [07675] of violence [02555] to come near [05066];

¹³ They sacrifice [02076] flesh [01320] for the sacrifices [02077] of mine offerings [01890], and eat [0398] it; but the LORD [03068] accepteth [07521] them not; now will he remember [02142] their iniquity [05771], and visit [06485] their sins [02403]: they shall return [07725] to Egypt [04714].

¹⁰ Then Amaziah [0558] the priest [03548] of Bethel [01008] sent [07971] to Jeroboam [03379] king [04428] of Israel [03478], saying [0559], Amos [05986] hath conspired [07194] against thee in the midst [07130] of the house [01004] of Israel [03478]: the land [0776] is not able [03201] to bear [03557] all his words [01697].
¹¹ For thus Amos [05986] saith [0559], Jeroboam [03379] shall die [04191] by the sword [02719], and Israel [03478] shall surely [01540] be led away captive [01540] out of their own land [0127].
¹² Also Amaziah [0558] said [0559] unto Amos [05986], O thou seer [02374], go [03212], flee thee away [01272] into the land [0776] of Judah [03063], and there eat [0398] bread [03899], and prophesy [05012] there:
¹³ But prophesy [05012] not again [03254] any more at Bethel [01008]: for it is the king's [04428] chapel [04720], and it is the king's [04467] court [01004].
¹⁴ Then answered [06030] Amos [05986], and said [0559] to Amaziah [0558], I was no prophet [05030], neither was I a prophet's [05030] son [01121]; but I was an herdman [0951], and a gatherer [01103] of sycomore fruit [08256]:
¹⁵ And the LORD [03068] took [03947] me as I followed [0310] the flock [06629], and the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto me, Go [03212], prophesy [05012] unto my people [05971] Israel [03478].
¹⁶ Now therefore hear [08085] thou the word [01697] of the LORD [03068]: Thou sayest [0559], Prophesy [05012] not against Israel [03478], and drop [05197] not thy word against the house [01004] of Isaac [03446].
¹⁷ Therefore thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068]; Thy wife [0802] shall be an harlot [02181] in the city [05892], and thy sons [01121] and thy daughters [01323] shall fall [05307] by the sword [02719], and thy land [0127] shall be divided [02505] by line [02256]; and thou shalt die [04191] in [05921] a polluted [02931] land [0127]: and Israel [03478] shall surely [01540] go into captivity [01540] forth of his land [0127].

¹ I will stand [05975] upon my watch [04931], and set [03320] me upon the tower [04692], and will watch [06822] to see [07200] what he will say [01696] unto me, and what I shall answer [07725] when I am reproved [08433].

¹⁷ Son [01121] of man [0120], I have made [05414] thee a watchman [06822] unto the house [01004] of Israel [03478]: therefore hear [08085] the word [01697] at my mouth [06310], and give them warning [02094] from me.

⁸ The watchman [06822] of Ephraim [0669] was with my God [0430]: but the prophet [05030] is a snare [06341] of a fowler [03352] in all his ways [01870], and hatred [04895] in the house [01004] of his God [0430].

²² And the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto him, Wherewith? And he said [0559], I will go forth [03318], and I will be a lying [08267] spirit [07307] in the mouth [06310] of all his prophets [05030]. And he said [0559], Thou shalt persuade [06601] him, and prevail [03201] also: go forth [03318], and do [06213] so.

¹¹ If [03863] a man [0376] walking [01980] in the spirit [07307] and falsehood [08267] do lie [03576], saying, I will prophesy [05197] unto thee of wine [03196] and of strong drink [07941]; he shall even be the prophet [05197] of this people [05971].

¹² For I know [03045] your manifold [07227] transgressions [06588] and your mighty [06099] sins [02403]: they afflict [06887] the just [06662], they take [03947] a bribe [03724], and they turn aside [05186] the poor [034] in the gate [08179] from their right.

² And they consider [0559] not in their hearts [03824] that I remember [02142] all their wickedness [07451]: now their own doings [04611] have beset them about [05437]; they are before my face [06440].

¹⁰ Because, even because they have seduced [02937] my people [05971], saying [0559], Peace [07965]; and there was no peace [07965]; and one built up [01129] a wall [02434], and, lo [02009], others daubed [02902] it with untempered [08602] morter:

⁷ The days [03117] of visitation [06486] are come [0935], the days [03117] of recompence [07966] are come [0935]; Israel [03478] shall know [03045] it: the prophet [05030] is a fool [0191], the spiritual [07307] man [0376] is mad [07696], for the multitude [07230] of thine iniquity [05771], and the great [07227] hatred [04895].

⁹ They have deeply [06009] corrupted [07843] themselves, as in the days [03117] of Gibeah [01390]: therefore he will remember [02142] their iniquity [05771], he will visit [06485] their sins [02403].