Hosea 10:3-6

Jesus, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, our only hope of salvation.

The world is consumed with her idols of power, money and control in place of the fruit of the Spirit. The world will know believers by their fruit.

Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

The world needs her King. REVIVAL!

Hosea 10:3-6

3 For now they say,

“We have no king,

Because we did not fear the Lord.

And as for a king, what would he do for us?”

4 They have spoken words,

Swearing falsely in making a covenant.

Thus judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.

5 The inhabitants of Samaria fear

Because of the calf of Beth Aven.

For its people mourn for it,

And its priests shriek for it—

Because its glory has departed from it.

6 The idol also shall be carried to Assyria

As a present for King Jareb.

Ephraim shall receive shame,

And Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

This foreshadows the end of the northern kingdom. In applying the punishment of exile to the golden calf the Hebrew text reflects the ancient Near Eastern practice of deporting the idols of conquered cities. Their false god was unable to save the nation. Faithlife Bible.

The verse anticipates the people’s response when God’s judgment came to destroy Israel’s political stability and independence. Llike hemlock in the furrows of the field refers to poisonous weeds sprouting up in a field and choking out the crops. In the same way God’s judgment would replace His blessings. The Assyrians often carried off the idols of their defeated foes. Israel’s foreign alliances would prove disappointing. NKJ Bible.

A vine is only valuable for its fruit; but Israel now brought no fruit to perfection. Their hearts were divided. God is the Sovereign of the heart; he will have all, or none. Were the stream of the heart wholly after God, it would run strongly, and bear down all before it. Their pretences to covenant with God were false. Even the proceeding of justice was as poisonous hemlock. Alas, how empty a vine is the visible church even at this day! But all earthly prosperity is but a collection of bubbles, soon destroyed like foam upon the water. Sinners will in vain seek shelter from that Judge, whom they now despise as a Saviour. Matthew Henry Commentary.

Deuteronomy 31:16 And the LORD said to Moses: “Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

Deuteronomy 31:17 Then My anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’

Hosea 5:13 “When Ephraim saw his sickness,And Judah saw his wound,Then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb; yet he cannot cure you, nor heal you of your wound.