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Hosea 4:18

Hosea 4:18
Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Their drink is sour,.... In their stomachs, having drank so much that they cannot digest it; hence nauseous eructations, with a filthy stench, are belched out; so it is a charge of drunkenness which…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Their drink is sour - Literally, “turned,” as we say of milk. So Isaiah says, “Thy silver is become dross; thy wine is mingled,” i. e., adulterated, “with water” Isa 1:22; and our lord speaks of “salt…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Their drink is sour - Or rather, he is gone after their wine. The enticements of idolatry have carried them away.

Her rulers with shame do love - Rather, have loved shame; they glory in their…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Hosea 4:12-19

In these verses we have, as before,

I. The sins charged upon the people of Israel, for which God had a controversy with them, and they are,

1. Spiritual whoredom, or idolatry. They have in them a…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Their drink is sour This translation is cannot be sustained philologically. If the text is correct, the only version at once intelligible and philologically sound is, -Their drunkenness has passed…