Hosea 14:3
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Note d'étude
Study Note
The penitential liturgy of Hosea 14 reaches its climax when Israel renounces the triple false security of Assyrian military alliance, warhorses, and idols ('the work of our hands'), confessing that 'in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.' The renunciation of horses is particularly significant: Deuteronomy 17:16 forbade the king from multiplying horses, and the prophets consistently present military technology as the embodiment of trust in human power rather than divine strength (Isaiah 31:1; Psalm 20:7). The fatherless (orphan) as the test case of divine mercy connects to Hosea's own covenantal language — God's grace covers those who have no human patron or advocate. Romans 9:26 ('and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God') cites Hosea 2:23 in light of this same theme of mercy to the fatherless/no-people.
Autres traductions
Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods; for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Asshur doth not save us, on a horse we ride not, Nor do we say any more, Our God, to the work of our hands, For in Thee find mercy doth the fatherless.'
Assyria will not be our salvation; we will not go on horses; we will not again say to the work of our hands, You are our gods; for in you there is mercy for the child who has no father.
Références croisées
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, …
But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that …
And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast …
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself …
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.
They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.