Hosea Chapter 10 verse 7 Holy Bible
`As for' Samaria, her king is cut off, as foam upon the water.
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As for Samaria, her king is cut off, like mist on the water.
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As for Samaria her king is cut off as chips upon the face of the waters.
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As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
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Samaria and her king float away, Like a twig on the water.
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Cut off is Samaria! Its king `is' as a chip on the face of the waters.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - As for Samaria, her king is out off as the foam upon the water (face of the waters). Instead of the throne of Samaria being established, or the kingdom consolidated by the idolatrous measures which Jeroboam had adopted for the purpose, the king himself was cut off as foam upon the surface of the waters, or as a chip carried off by the current, and the kingdom ingloriously ruined. Though the sense is sufficiently plain, the sentence has been variously constructed. Thus (1) one of the Hebrew commentators renders it, "In the city of Samaria her king has been made like foam on the surface of the water" (be being understood and נדמה taken in the sense of "being like"). (2) Rashi, understanding the verb to signify being "reduced to silence," explains, "The King of Samaria is brought to silence." (3) The correct signification of the verb, however, is "cut off" or "annihilated," while the construction may be . . .
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) Foam . . . Water.--One of the most striking images in the prophecy. The word qetseph, rendered "foam"--Speaker's Commentary reads "bubble"--properly signifies "chip" or "fragment." Translate: Like a chip on the waters' surface. The king is tossed on the raging seas of political life like a helpless fragment. Such was the instability of the throne of Israel at this period. (Comp. Hosea 13:11.)
