Hosea 10:10

It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them. This is better translated thus: When I desire it, then ( vav of the apodosis) shall I chastise them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them . This expresses God's determination to punish sin and vindicate his justice as the infinitely Holy One. It means, not only that his desire to punish them does exist, but that, this desire being taken for granted, there shall be no let nor hindrance; nothing can stay his hand. Then the mode and means of chastisement are indicated—peoples, foreign invaders, shall be gathered against them. The verb אָסֹר is future Qal of יסר irregularly, as if coming from נסד , the daghesh in samech compensating for the absorbed yod . When they shall bind themselves in their two furrows ; margin, When I shall bind them for their two transgressions, or, in their two habitations .