Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
people--the peculiar designation of God's elect nation (Hosea 1:10), that they should be "laden with iniquity" is therefore the more monstrous. Sin is a load (Psalms 38:4; Matthew 11:28).
seed--another appellation of God's elect (Genesis 12:7; Jeremiah 2:21), designed to be a "holy seed" (Isaiah 6:13), but, awful to say, "evildoers!"
children--by adoption (Hosea 11:1), yet "evildoers"; not only so, but "corrupters" of others (Genesis 6:12); the climax. So "nation--people--seed children."
provoked--literally, "despised," namely, so as to provoke (Proverbs 1:30-31).
Holy One of Israel--the peculiar heinousness of their sin, that it was against their God (Amos 3:2).
gone . . . backward--literally, "estranged" (Psalms 58:3).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
2 Timothy 3:6
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