Hosea 6:4 O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud… Either — 1. God's goodness towards them, or 2. Their goodness, that is, their piety and holiness.God's goodness to them was as the morning cloud, for they, by their sin, had driven away God's mercy and goodness from them, even as the wind carries the dust before it. In these words God charges this people with three things whereby their hypocrisy was expressed. (1) Their vacuity and emptiness. (2) Their falseness and dissembling. (3) Their inconstancy and fickleness. (Jeremiah Burroughs.) Parallel Verses KJV: O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. |
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