NOTES for Hos 8:7

By making whatever decisions, by acting under circumstances, we use the simplest mechanisms of decision making. We try to act equitably, as we understand it, or for our own benefit, or "to affect the most strongly possible somebody.

Sometimes, the political or economic news suggest that global changes take place only because somebody did not please another, hostility turns out to be a much more powerful motor of history, than even common sense. In this term, the Bible becomes for us a book of the rational behavior. Vengeance out of respect for justice manifestly is not what God wants to teach us; because human justice is a one-sided justice.

We indeed, would not in general want from God justice for us, but only mercy. The Lord tries to teach us to never sow the wind. No matter how just from our point of view we would have made the decisions, it is always necessary to think of the consequences. Rancour doesn’t suit man, not only because God asked to return to Him vengeance. But also because it turns out that in the world, exists an immutable law: if we sow the wind, we shall reap the whirlwind, which cannot only cripple us, but also destroy us.