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¶ Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone
a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. .3 They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. |
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Rejoice
not A warning not to imagine security. At the time of Jeroboam
II Israel enjoyed prosperity. Also seen in ho0208.
1 - Reward ... cornfloor The "other people" or nations that Israel was following like prostitutes believed that their pagan gods brought prosperity. 3 - Ephraim shall return That is, to Egypt or the Egyptian lifestyle. See on 8:13. |
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They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be
pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of
mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their
soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? 6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles. |
4 - Bread for their soul Better translated "bread is for their souls." They would eat what should be brought in offerings. |
| 7 ¶ The days of visitation
are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet
is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity,
and the great hatred.
8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. .9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. .10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved. |
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- Prophet The false prophets rejected the idea that God would
punish – that the "days of visitation" were upon them je1413ff.
10 - Your fathers as ... firstripe God apparently refers to the righteousness of the new generation of the children of Israel who were about to cross the Jordan when they apostatized nu25. |
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¶ As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the
birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
.12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! 13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. 14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. |
11 - As for Ephriam Punishment announced. Because of raids killing many people the population would decrease. Being childless was considered a curse. |
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All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness
of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no
more: all their princes are revolters.
16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb. .17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations. |
17 - My God will cast them away A result of disobedience. God never chooses to reject people who come to Him for help jn0637, ja0408. |
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