Bible Church 326 E. Colorado Ave. This chapter now turns from the personal life of Hosea and family experience power prophecy to applied prophecy against the Northern kingdom. The bulk of the rest of the book is forthtelling - the interpretation of historical trends and current events against the canon of Scripture. The noun RIBH describes a clamorous dispute. Domestic disputes are always the worst.
Police officers fear the call for help in a domestic dispute.
This is the kind of dispute that Yahweh has with Israel - it is family, and it is serious. It is not just a passing inconsequential thing. It is not a spat. This dispute has a direction of sorts. This means that the inhabitants of the earth have offended Yahweh, and therefore the dispute.