Hosea 7:4

The difficulty of the section including Hosea 7:4-7 has occasioned considerable difference of exposition; it may not, therefore, be amiss to supplement the foregoing observations.

1. Aben Ezra accounts for בערה being accented as milel

2. The word מֵעִיר , which Ewald and others take, properly we think,

3. More important still is the interpretation of the verse. There is