What will you do on the appointed day, on the day of the LORD’s feast?
Parallel translations
- WEB What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?
- KJV What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
- NKJV What will you do in the appointed day, And in the day of the feast of the Lord?
- NASB What will you do on the day of the appointed festival And on the day of the feast of the Lord?
- NLT What then will you do on festival days? How will you observe the Lord’s festivals?
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Quick answer
Hosea asks what they will do on the appointed feast days of the LORD when they are in exile.
Overview
With the people scattered and cut off from worship, the joyful festivals of the LORD will become impossible to keep. The rhetorical question forces Israel to face the bleakness of religious life without the land or temple. It underscores that the privileges of covenant worship, once despised, will be sorely missed, pointing to the greater worship now possible in Christ wherever His people are.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Isa 10:3What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
- Hos 2:11I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.
- Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
- Joel 1:13Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
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God's relentless love for an unfaithful bride dramatizes the gospel: 'Out of Egypt I called my son' is fulfilled in Jesus, who redeems an adulterous people at his own cost.
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