Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 5:10

10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound : therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water .

The great Men about the King and Court, the Rulers and Governours, who by the Law of God and Man should have been the maintainers of Equity, and Justice among the people.

Of the Kingdom of Iudah, or the Two Tribes.

Have been, and now are, in the days of Ahaz, for to this mans time the Prophet now pointeth.

The antient bounds which limited every one, prevented controversies and oppressions of encroaching covetous men. The Prophet I doubt not aims at reproving the sin of these great ones in changing the Laws of Religion, as well as altering the bounds of Civil Rights, whether by encroaching upon Forreigners, and enlarging the Kingdom of Iudah by entrenching on the Neighbouring Kingdoms, or which is more certain by injustice and violence seizing what was anothers.

This was sin and forbidden, Deut. 19.14. This practice is cursed, Deut. 27.17. and God now will punish it.

Like an overflowing flood.