Hosea 10:7 Samaria's king will be destroyed, swept away like a twig on the surface of the waters.

◄ Hosea 10:7 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Samaria's king will be destroyed, swept away like a twig on the surface of the waters.

English Standard Version
Samaria’s king shall perish like a twig on the face of the waters.

New American Standard Bible
Samaria will be cut off with her king Like a stick on the surface of the water.

King James Bible
As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Samaria's king will disappear like foam on the surface of the water.

International Standard Version
Samaria's king will float away like driftwood on the surface of water.

American Standard Version
As for'samaria, her king is cut off, as foam upon the water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Samaria hath made her king to pass as froth upon the face of the water.

Darby Bible Translation
As for Samaria her king is cut off as chips upon the face of the waters.

Young's Literal Translation
Cut off is Samaria! Its king is as a chip on the face of the waters.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

10:1-8 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

7. (Ho 10:3, 15).

foam—denoting short-lived existence and speedy dissolution. As the foam, though seeming to be eminent raised on the top of the water, yet has no solidity, such is the throne of Samaria. Maurer translates, "a chip" or broken branch that cannot resist the current.