The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 192
192. Internal Meaning of Hosea, Chapter 9
1-3 They have falsified the truths of the church, therefore the church has been destroyed, and they will be natural, abiding only in reasonings from the natural man. (3, 3)
4-5 Consequently there is no Divine worship. (3)
6 All truth and good is turned into falsity and evil. (3)
7-9 They will perish on the day of judgment. (3)
12-13 The first of them were also such, they had no understanding of truth; so also their posterity, although instructed. (3)
Hosea 9:7-9
7
The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
8
A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler's snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
9
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.