Geneva Bible Notes (1560): Hosea 7

^{1 !} Of the vices & wantonnes of the people.

^{1 a} Meaning, that there was no one kinde of vice among them, but that they were subject to all wickednes, bothe secret & open.

^{3 b} Thei esteme their wicked King Jeroboam aboue God, & seke but how to flatter, and please him.

^{4 c} He compareth the rage of the people to a burning ouen which the baker heateth stil til his dowe be leauened, and raised.

^{5 d} They vsed all riot & excesse in their feasts & solemnities, whereby their King was ouercome with surfet, & broght unto diseases and delited in faltteries.

^{7 e} By their occasion God hathe depriued them of all good rulers.

^{8 f} That is, eh contersaiteth the religion of the Gentiles, yet is but as a cake baked on the ons side, & raw on the other, that is, nether through hote nor through cold, but partely a Jewe, and partely a Gentil.

^{9 g} Which are a token of his manifolde afflictions.

^{11 h} That is, without all judgement, as they that can not tel whether it is better to cleaue onely to god, or to seke the helpe of man.

^{12 !} Of their punishment.

^{12 i} According to my curses made to the whole congregation of Israel.

^{13 k} That is, diuers times redemed them, and deliuered them from death.

^{14 m} They onely seke their owne comoditie and welth, and passe not for me their God.

^{14 l} When they were in affliction, & cryed out for paine, they soght not vnto me for helpe.

^{16 n} Because they boast of their owne strength, and passe not what they speake against me and my seruants, {Psal. 73,9}.