Oséias 7

Oséias 7

Guzik - Have you forgotten? Do you think God doesn’t see? Do you think God is blind to your adultery or pre-marital sex? Do you think your pornography habit goes unnoticed? Do you think God’s eyes are closed when you get drunk or take drugs? There are many church-going people today who think that God forgets or never sees such things, because they do them and then they come to church and make a profession of godliness, pretending that those things are never part of their life. (Enduring Word Bible Commentary – Hosea) Hosea 7:3 With their wickedness they make the king glad, And the princes with their lies. BGT Hosea 7:3 ἐν ταῖς κακίαις αὐτῶν εὔφραναν βασιλεῖς καὶ ἐν τοῖς ψεύδεσιν αὐτῶν ἄρχοντας NET Hosea 7:3 The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies. LXE Hosea 7:3 They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies. NLT Hosea 7:3 "The people entertain the king with their wickedness, and the princes laugh at their lies. KJV Hosea 7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. ESV Hosea 7:3 By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery. ASV Hosea 7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. CSB Hosea 7:3 They please the king with their evil, the princes with their lies. NIV Hosea 7:3 "They delight the king with their wickedness, the princes with their lies. NKJ Hosea 7:3 They make a king glad with their wickedness, And princes with their lies. NRS Hosea 7:3 By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the officials by their treachery. YLT Hosea 7:3 With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes. NAB Hosea 7:3 In their wickedness they regale the king, the princes too, with their deceits. NJB Hosea 7:3 They amuse the king with their wickedness and the chief men with their lies. GWN Hosea 7:3 "They make kings happy with the wicked things they do. They make officials happy with the lies they tell. BHT Hosea 7:3 Bürä`ätäm yüSammüHû-meºlek ûbükaHášêhem Särîm BBE Hosea 7:3 In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit. Ho 5:11 1Ki 22:6,13 Jer 5:31 Jer 9:2 28:1-4 37:19 Am 7:10-13 Mic 6:16 Mic 7:3 Ro 1:32 1Jn 4:5 CORRUPT "POLITICIANS" With their wickedness they make the king glad and the princes with their lies - This is a very sad verse! When wickedness and lies are the source of one's gladness, happiness or delight, then one is truly perverted God's order. Their response to evil makes me think of the last verse in Paul's horrible description of humanity that has chosen to reject the knowledge of the Most High God... Although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them. (Ro 1:32+) The NLT paraphrase gives us an vivid picture of a country turned upside down - "The people entertain the king with their wickedness, and the princes laugh at their lies." Sin in rulers encouraged sin in the ruled. Think about the picture -- if you saw your leader rejoicing in wickedness, it would be much easier for you his subject to do what was evil and to amuse the rulers with your accounts of wickedness! Sin was not only tolerated, but even celebrated! This is the picture of a very sick society! Wickedness (07451)(ra') describes the inability to come up to good (God's) standards. It speaks of inferior quality (think of their ability to lead the people). It describes wicked thoughts and evil actions, common bed-fellows in the heart and mind of all who have rejected God and His Truth. The Septuagint translates ra' with kakia which refers to the quality of wickedness and in a moral sense means depravity, vice or baseness (James 1:21, 1 Peter 2:16, Acts 8:22). It is the opposite of arete and all virtue and therefore lacks social value. It denotes a vicious disposition, evilness, ill-will, spitefulness. And this is what gave them joy!!! When that happens in a society, you know the society is very sick and not far from death. Indeed the Assyrians defeated Israel in 722 BC and took them off into exile (cf the "10 lost tribes")