Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 7:13

13 Wo unto them, for they have fled from me : destruction unto them , because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them , yet they have spoken lies against me .

It is the voice both of Menace and Lamentation, the Prophet doth at once foretel, and bewail their Miseries,

As if it were not enough that they did at first leave my Government, Temple, and Worship; they have gone farther from me, they have hastened herein, they flew from me a[illegible: 1 letter] Birds on Wing: Their sin is Apostacy.

This explains the Wo already mentioned, such Wo 'twill be as ends in destruction.

Rebelliously cast off my Law and Government, much in State, more in Church matters, oppressours in one, Idolaters in the other, and incorrigible in both.

Out of Egypt, but that's long since, and the Prophet speaks of deliverance nearer to the times he lived in, God redeemed them partly by [illegible: 1 letter]oash, 2 Kings 13. but more fully by Ieroboam the second, 2 Kings 15. and would have compleated this deliverance, but they by sins hinder it.

Practically they belye me, [illegible: 1 letter]lying to Idols, worshipping them, praying to them▪ as if I were not able or willing to help them; and ascribing praise of the good they enjoy to their Idols, chap. 2.5, 6, 7. they belyed his corrections as if not deserved, or severer then need; they belyed the good done, as if too little, or not done by God, but by their Idol.

Marginal references: Heb. spoil.