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# General Information:
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Hosea is speaking
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# to the work of our hands
Here people are represented by their "hands" to refer to the people making things. Alternate translation: "to the idols we made" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# the fatherless person
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This expression stands perhaps for the entire nation. It indicates God's enormous compassion for his people.
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# finds compassion
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Here the act of God having compassion is spoken of as if it were an object that someone experiencing that compassion had found. The abstract noun "compassion" can be translated with an adjective. Alternate translation: "finds one who is compassionate" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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