Hosea 2:12-13 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she has said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me… Such is the character of all engrossing passion, such is the course of sin, to which the soul gives way, in avarice, ambition, worldliness, sensual sin, godless science. The soul, at last, does not rebel against God, it forgets Him; it is taken up with other things, with itself, with the subjects of its thoughts, the objects of its affections, and it has no time for God. So God complains of Judah by Jeremiah, "Their fathers have forgotten My name for Baal." (E. B. Pusey, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. |
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