John Trapp on Hosea 9:9

Verſe 9. They have deeply corrupted themſelves, as in the dayes of Gibeah:] The people are as bad as poſſible, ſhameleſly, lawleſly wicked: nothing better then thoſe ſonnes of Belial the men of Gibeah, that were ſunk to ſins bottom:Judg. 19. totally transformed into ſinnes image, extreamly flagitious, ſo that a worſe people could hardly be found upon the face of the earth. As it was given in anſwer to a godly man who deſired to know of God, why Phocas was ſet up for Emperour?Cedren. becauſe there could not be a worſe man found, and that the ſinnes of Chriſtians required it. Lipſius maketh mention of one Tubulus (about Tullies time) who was ſo deſperately wicked, ut ejus nomen non hominis ſed vitij eſſe videretur, that his name ſeemed to be the name not of a man, but of wickedneſſe it ſelf.Lipſ antiq. lection. Lo ſuch were theſe men of Gibeah, Judg. 19. nothing behind Sodomites in ſinne: as Samaria now was nothing behinde them, and is therefore fitly coupled with her ſiſter Sodom, Ezek. 16.46. The reaſon of all which is here given, their wicked watch-men: according to that, Eſay 3.12. qui te ducunt, ſeducunt. They which lead thee, cauſe thee to erre: and again, Eſay 9.16. The leaders of this people cauſe them to erre; and they that are led of them are deſtroyed. It is thought that the Gibeah here mentioned, and to which this verſe relateth, was the ſame which Joſh. 21.17. is called Gebah; which was a city given to the Prieſts, who being lords and owners of the Town, were (probably) the ring-leaders of the reſt in that matchleſſe villany;Rom. 1.32. and ſo were of the number of thoſe worſt of ſinners, who knowing the judgement of God (that they which commit ſuch things are worthy of death) not onely do the ſame, but have pleaſure in them that do them.

Now will he remember their iniquities, and viſit their ſinnes.] Now that they had filled up the meaſure of their fathers ſinnes, Matth. 23.32. nay ſought to outſinne them, Et puduit non eſſe impudentes (as Auſtin ſaith ſomewhere) God would forbear them no longer. Let this b[illegible: 1 letter]hoted, by ſuch as being told of their vile and vicious practiſes, plead that they do but as their forefathers did. Certainly if the times be as ill as they were heretofore, they are even for that cauſe much the worſe; and God will the ſooner remember and viſit, pay wicked men for the new and the old. See chap. 8.13.