ISB ~ Luke 23 v30

Fall on us … Cover us:Expressions of agony and despair drawn from Hos 10:8.

• In its original context, Hosea pronounced doom on the northern kingdom of Israel (in Samaria) for abandoning the Lord in favor of idols. Since the Israelites ignored the prophet’s warnings, they were crushed by the Assyrians in the eighth century B.C. Jesus redirects this oracle from Samaria to Jerusalem, which will likewise taste the bitterness of war and devastation for its prolonged impenitence (Rev 6:16).