Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 4:14

14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom , nor your spouses when they commit adultery : for themselves are separated with whores , and they sacrifice with harlots x: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall .

Or visit upon your daughters; God will not any more lay on them such restraints▪ as remarkable punishments are usually to all that observe them. They are threatned thus to be thrown up to their own hearts, and others lusts.

You have rejected my Law which directed the correction and punishment of such sins, and do you think I will by extraordinary courses restrain, where you cast off the ordinary?

You shall have no bitter water of jealousie to discover, convict and torment an Adulterous Wife, as Iudah hath, Numb. 5.12. nor will I by unusual strokes of my hand smite them. This impunity will increase your grief and shame, and so you shall be punisht.

The Husbands and Fathers are examples to Wives and Daughters; Those are separated with the lewd women, which either they took to them upon putting away their lawful Wife, which these men did to satisfie their lusts, or else separated, i. e. withdrawn from the company of their fellow Idolaters, that in privacy they might commit whoredom with the women they choose to themselves for that end.

Perform the rites of Sacrifices, both in offering first, and in feasting next, in which feasts wine and women would prove great and prevalent temptations to whoredom among those men.

By all this it is evident, this people is a [illegible: 1 letter]ottish ignorant people, that know not God, as ver. 1.6, 11.

Be utterly ruined, broken into pieces, and scattered, broken at home first by intestine wars, next by forreign invasions, and carried away at last by conquering enemies.

Marginal references: Or, shall I not.; Or, be punished.