John Trapp on Hosea 5:9

Verſe 9. Ephraim ſhall be deſolate in the day of rebuke] Correptionis, vel Correctionis, ut Pagninus: when thou with rebukes doſt correct man for iniquity, &c. Pſal. 39.11. God hath a day for ſuch ſharp rebukes, or childings by way of conviction, or Argument (as the word ſignifieth) wherein he will be ſure to carry it, with a great deal of ſound reaſon and evident demonſtration: ſo that Ephraim ſhall have nothing to ſay, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Vaſtri ita ut videntes obstupeſcant. &c. why he ſhould not be deſolated; yea ſo deſolated as to make the beholders amazed thereat, as the Hebrew word importeth God, will not now dally with Ephraim, or deal favourably with him as heretofore: he will not ſhake his rod at him only, but waſt it to the very ſtumps: he ſhall be utterly deſtroyed from being a people: the day that now comes is a black day indeed, a day not of inſtruction, but of deſtruction, not of correction but of execution; a very doomeſday, wherein God will bring them into the furnace, and there leave them Ezek. 22.20. And that none may think this ſentence over ſevere: or not ſo ſure but that it might be avoyded or vacated, ſee what followeth in the text;

among the tribes of Iſrael have I made known that which ſhall ſurely be] i.e. Either I have forewarned them ſufficiently, but they would take no warning, which is both a juſt preſage and deſert of their ruine: Or elſe thus: I am now fully reſolved upon their ruine, neither is there cauſe that any man ſhould deceive himſelf with a vain hope, as if theſe evils that I foretell ſhould not befall you. Experience the miſtreſſe of fools, ſhall teach you, that the ſentence I now pronounce is preciſe and peremptory, not conditionall as heretofore, but abſolute, and unchangeable: and this I here aſſure you of by this ſolemn conteſtation.