Psa 30:5, Hos 6:4, 13:3 | JFB | STEP | 5. Relatively, the longest experience of divine anger by the pious is momentary. These precious words have consoled millions.

Psalms 30:5

5. Relatively, the longest experience of divine anger by the pious is momentary. These precious words have consoled millions.

Hosea 6:4

4. what shall I do unto thee—to bring thee back to piety. What more could be done that I have not done, both in mercies and chastenings (Isa 5:4)? At this verse a new discourse begins, resuming the threats (Ho 5:14). See opening remarks on this chapter.

goodness—godliness.

morning cloud—soon dispersed by the sun (Ho 13:3). There is a tacit contrast here to the promise of God's grace to Israel hereafter, in Ho 6:3. His going forth is "as the morning," shining more and more unto the perfect day; your goodness is "as a morning cloud," soon vanishing. His coming to His people is "as the (fertilizing) latter and former rains"; your coming to Him "as the early dew goeth away."

Hosea 13:3

3. they shall be as the morning cloud . . . dew— (Ho 6:4). As their "goodness" soon vanished like the morning cloud and dew, so they shall perish like them.

the floor—the threshing-floor, generally an open area, on a height, exposed to the winds.

chimney—generally in the East an orifice in the wall, at once admitting the light, and giving egress to the smoke.