Hosea 7:5
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
American King James Version (AKJV)
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
American Standard Version (ASV)
On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with scoffers.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.
Webster's Revision
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
World English Bible
On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.
English Revised Version (ERV)
On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
Barnes's Hosea 7:5 Bible Commentary
In the day of our king, the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine - (Or, "with heat from wine.") Their holydays, like those of so many Englishmen now, were days of excess. "The day of their king" was probably some civil festival; his birthday, or his coronation-day. The prophet owns the king, in that he calls him "our king;" he does not blame them for keeping the day, but for the way in which they kept it. Their festival they turned into an irreligious and anti-religious carousal; making themselves like "the brutes which perish," and tempting their king first to forget his royal dignity, and then to blaspheme the majesty of God.
He stretched out his hand with scorners - as it is said, "Wine is a mocker" (or "scoffer"). Drunkenness, by taking off all power of self restraint, brings out the evil which is in the man. The "scorner" or "scoffer" is one who "neither fears God nor regards man" Luke 18:4, but makes a jest of all things, true and good, human or divine. Such were these corrupt princes of the king of Israel; with these "he stretched out the hand," in token of his good fellowship with them, and that he was one with them. He withdrew his hand or his society from good and sober people, and "stretched" it "out," not to punish these, but to join with them, as people in drink reach out their hands to any whom they meet, in token of their sottish would-be friendliness. With these the king drank, jested, played the buffoon, praised his idols, scoffed at God. The flattery of the bad is a man's worst foe.
Wesley's Hosea 7:5 Bible Commentary
7:5 In the day of our king - Probably the anniversary of his birth or coronation. Stretched out his hand - In these drunken feasts it seems the king forgat himself, and stretched out his hand, with those who deride religion, and with confusion to the professors of it.