Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Hosea 9:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
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Quick Meaning
This verse asks what the people will do on appointed and festival days without their worshiping life.
Read It With
- Hosea 9:1-9
Read Hosea 9:5 with 9:1-9. This verse asks what the people will do on appointed and festival days without their worshiping life. The complete unit establishes this movement: Israel's harvest celebration is condemned as paid unfaithfulness; land and feasts are lost in Assyrian exile, Egypt becomes burial, and hostility surrounds prophetic warning like the corruption remembered at Gibeah.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The poem turns the expected abundance of a feast into the practical losses of land, worship, food status, burial, shelter, and trusted speech. Within that movement, this verse asks what the people will do on appointed and festival days without their worshiping life.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“day of the feast”
In plain language: the communal appointed celebration made impossible by exile
asks what the people will do on appointed and festival days without their worshiping life. Loss is measured by the communal calendar as well as territory.
Why it matters: The wording identifies this verse's distinct contribution to the complete unit.
How certain? strongWhat Remains True
Loss is measured by the communal calendar as well as territory.
How It Can Shape Life
- Make space for displaced people to mourn interrupted sacred time.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Hosea 9:1-9 — Festival Joy Collapses into Exile, Lost Worship, Burial, and Prophetic HostilitySources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Hosea 9:1-9, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Hosea
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew, morphology, syntax, names, wordplay, repetitions, and the base text for translation questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Hos.xml, 9:1-9
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Hosea with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, textual, grammatical, historical, rhetorical, and uncertainty notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Hosea PDF, printed pp. 1689-1690, translation and notes on 9:1-9
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