Hosea 13:3. Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
If they make idols their gods, they shall be like their idols. Idols are but for a day; what is there in them of endurance? What is there in them of power? "They that make them are like unto them, so is every one that trusteth in them." If we trust in anything that we can see, if we trust in anything but God, then our hope shall be "as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away," and we ourselves shall be like the chaff that is driven from the threshing-floor by a whirlwind, or like the smoke driven out of the chimney by the blast.
Hosea 13:3. Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
If they make idols their gods, they shall be like their idols. Idols are but for a day; what is there in them of endurance? What is there in them of power? "They that make them are like unto them, so is every one that trusteth in them." If we trust in anything that we can see, if we trust in anything but God, then our hope shall be "as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away," and we ourselves shall be like the chaff that is driven from the threshing-floor by a whirlwind, or like the smoke driven out of the chimney by the blast.