John Trapp on Hosea 4:19
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Hosea4:19
Verſe 19. The wind hath bound her up in her wings] The evill ſpirit, (ſaith) Hierom) hurries them towards hell, which is the juſt hire of the leaſt ſin: how much more of theſe fore-mentioned abominations? Take it rather to be ſpoken of the ſuddenneſſe, ſwiftneſſe, and unreſiſtableneſſe of Gods judgments ſet forth by mighty winds rending the rocks, and tearing up the mountaines by the roots, Job. 38.9. How then ſhall wicked men (compared to chaffe or duſt of the mountaines) ſtand before the tempeſt of Gods wrath, the thunder of his power? Well they may applaud and ſtroke themſelves for a time: but the wind ſhall bind them up in her wings: God ſhall blow them to deſtruction, Job. 4.9. his executioners have the wings of a ſtork, large and long, and wind in thoſe wings, to note their ready obedience, Zech. 5.9. And although Ezek. 1. God be repreſented as ſitting upon a throne to ſhew his ſlowneſs to puniſh, yet that throne hath wings & hands under thoſe wings, to ſhew his ſwiftneſs & readineſſe to do ſeaſonable execution upon his enemies.
and they ſhall be aſhamed becauſe of their ſacrifices] wherein they truſted, but now ſee themſelves diſappointed, their idols not able to help them. Then ſhall they caſt their idols of ſilver and of gold, which they have made each for himſelf to worſhip, to the moles and to the bats, to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, Iſay. 2.20, 21. See alſo Iſay. 30.22. If they be not thus aſhamed of their former fopperies, they are the more to be pittied. Illum ego periiſſe dico cui periit pudor. He is an undone man that ſhames not, ſhents not himſelf for his evill practiſes, that bluſheth not bleedeth not before God for them, lying down in his ſhame. Jer. 3.25. as fully aſhamed of his former hopes, Pſal. 119.116. which now he ſeeth how far they have abuſed him.
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