As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

Wesley's Notes

10:7 Is cut off - Shortly will be cut off: this prophecy probably was delivered when Samaria was besieged.

King James Translators' Notes

the water: Heb. the face of the water

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7. (Ho 10:3, 15).

foam-denoting short-lived existence and speedy dissolution. As the foam, though seeming to be eminent raised on the top of the water, yet has no solidity, such is the throne of Samaria. Maurer translates, "a chip" or broken branch that cannot resist the current.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:1-8 A vine is only valuable for its fruit; but Israel now brought no fruit to perfection. Their hearts were divided. God is the Sovereign of the heart; he will have all, or none. Were the stream of the heart wholly after God, it would run strongly, and bear down all before it. Their pretences to covenant with God were false. Even the proceeding of justice was as poisonous hemlock. Alas, how empty a vine is the visible church even at this day! But all earthly prosperity is but a collection of bubbles, soon destroyed like foam upon the water. Sinners will in vain seek shelter from that Judge, whom they now despise as a Saviour.