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Hosea 7:1-10:15

They Have Sown the Wind

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They Have Sown the Wind

Hosea 7:1-10:15

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This song belongs to the Hosea collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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[Processional Chant] Gray hairs came quietly, strength leaked away, Yet pride told the mirror that all was well. An oven glowed red while the baker slept, [Verse 1] A cake burned one side and the center stayed wet. A dove flew south, then north without rest, A crooked bow failed when the arrow was pressed. A calf made of silver could neither speak nor save, [Chorus] Gray hairs came quietly, strength leaked away, Yet pride told the mirror that all was well. Altars multiplied while the law became strange. They have sown the wind; hear the field reply, [Silence] The whirlwind stands where the harvest should rise. [Verse 2] No grain in the stalk, no bread in the hand, Foreign mouths swallow the fruit of the land. Break up the fallow ground before the storm, [Final Chorus] Gray hairs came quietly, strength leaked away, Yet pride told the mirror that all was well. Seek righteousness now while return still has form.

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Hosea 7: An overheated court and a cake never turned

Attempts at healing uncover more corruption rather than recovery. Falsehood, theft, raiding, royal approval, intoxication, and political violence accumulate around the image of an oven whose heat continues even when the baker sleeps. The same heated order that entertains rulers eventually consumes judges and kings. Hosea then turns from the court to a kitchen, calling Ephraim a cake not turned, damaged by uneven exposure while remaining unaware of its condition. Gray hairs continue the same diagnosis of decline without recognition. Foreign policy receives equally unflattering imagery: Ephraim is a silly dove moving between Egypt and Assyria, only to meet a net. The closing verses distinguish loud distress from genuine return. Crying, assembling, traveling, and turning can all occur without turning to the Most High, leaving the nation like a bow that cannot shoot straight.

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Hosea 8: The maker of the calf cannot make it God

A trumpet alarm exposes the distance between Israel's claim to know God and the covenant conduct that should accompany that claim. The people can say, "My God, we know thee," while rejecting the good. Hosea then joins unauthorized political rule with manufactured religion: kings are established apart from divine authorization, silver and gold become idols, and the calf of Samaria is reduced to the obvious fact that a craftsman made it. Foreign policy fares no better. Sowing wind produces a whirlwind, any surviving harvest is swallowed by strangers, and hired alliances bring burden rather than security. The chapter closes by placing multiplied altars, rejected instruction, unaccepted sacrifices, temples, and fortified cities under one accusation. Israel has forgotten its Maker, and impressive religious or defensive structures cannot replace the relation that has been refused.

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Hosea 9: The festival cannot keep the land from being lost

Hosea interrupts harvest celebration with an announcement that the threshing floor, winepress, land, and festival calendar cannot preserve Israel's security. Exile means more than relocation because it disrupts acceptable worship and settled life in the Lord's land. The chapter then moves into the troubled relation between prophetic warning and the community hearing it. Prophets are associated with folly, madness, snares, and hatred in wording whose precise direction is disputed, but the hostility surrounding divine warning is unmistakable. Memory then reaches back to the delight of first grapes and early figs before turning to Baalpeor and corrupted allegiance. The final sections are especially severe, moving from lost fruitfulness to threatened children, dried roots, rejection, and wandering among the nations. The chapter will not let fertility language hide the human cost of announced judgment.

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