Oséias 4

Oséias 4

Constable comments that "“violent crimes were so common that they seemed to follow one another without interruption." Employ (break out)(06555)(parats) means to break through; burst out (qal); to spread abroad (niphal); to be broken down (pual); break loose (hitpael). It is also used in Hos 4:10 ("but not increase"). The idea of parats is break down the hedge, break down the wall, break through a barrier or retainer, break into the house of God, tear down the wall of Jerusalem. Parats described the breaking open of a barrel of water, the breaching of a wall during a siege or the bursting of a dam. In a military context parats referred to a sudden, violent, devastating attack. The NKJV has "They break all restraint," about which