The Meaning of Hosea 9:17 Explained

Hosea 9:17

KJV: My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

YLT: Reject them doth my God, Because they have not hearkened to Him, And they are wanderers among nations!

Darby: My God hath rejected them, because they hearkened not unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

ASV: My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Discover Hosea 9:17

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Hosea 9:17?

MEANING: What does Hosea 9:17 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Hosea 9:17 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Hosea 9:17?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

My God  will cast them away,  because they did not hearken  unto him: and they shall be wanderers  among the nations. 

What does Hosea 9:17 Mean?

Verse Meaning

Hosea"s God would cast the Ephraimites out of the land because they proved unresponsive to Him (cf. Deuteronomy 28:62-64). They would end up wandering among the other nations of the world. Because they had wandered from the Lord, they would wander in the earth, like Cain whom the Lord also cursed (cf. Genesis 4:12).

Context Summary

Hosea 9:10-17 - "wanderers Among The Nations"
At the Exodus the love and thanks of Israel were as delightful to God as grapes in the desert or as the first ripe figs. But they gave themselves up to the idols of the heathen, and soon became as abominable as the impure gods which they chose.
The prophet does not hesitate to speak plainly of the effects of the awful license of that age. He says that a nation which sins as Israel had sinned must, in the very nature of things, cease to exist. The birth-rate declines and the family-life is stricken at its roots. So long as the home is reverenced, and there is a pure and holy love between man and woman, so long, and only so long, is the nation safe. All the battalions that tyrant ever mustered, break on that rock of chrysolyte in vain. But sin is like dry-rot, which eats out the vitality and virility of a people. It is an awful verdict when God says, They shall bear no fruit, Hosea 9:16. We all know the fate of the unfruitful bough. It is only as we yield fruit that we are worth sparing. Will the nations of today learn this lesson? And may we not all question whether the lack of spiritual children does not betoken some degeneracy of our secret life? [source]

Chapter Summary: Hosea 9

1  The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins

What do the individual words in Hosea 9:17 mean?

Will cast them away My God because not they did obey Him and they shall be wanderers among the nations -
יִמְאָסֵ֣ם אֱלֹהַ֔י כִּ֛י לֹ֥א שָׁמְע֖וּ ל֑וֹ וְיִהְי֥וּ נֹדְדִ֖ים בַּגּוֹיִֽם ס

יִמְאָסֵ֣ם  Will  cast  them  away 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular, third person masculine plural
Root: מָאַס 
Sense: to reject, despise, refuse.
אֱלֹהַ֔י  My  God 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: אֱלֹהִים  
Sense: (plural).
כִּ֛י  because 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: כִּי 
Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since.
שָׁמְע֖וּ  they  did  obey 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: שָׁמַע 
Sense: to hear, listen to, obey.
וְיִהְי֥וּ  and  they  shall  be 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
נֹדְדִ֖ים  wanderers 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural
Root: נָדַד  
Sense: to retreat, flee, depart, move, wander abroad, stray, flutter.
בַּגּוֹיִֽם  among  the  nations 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: גֹּוי 
Sense: nation, people.
ס  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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