God's judgments against

BEFORE. CHRIST cir. 780.

a Is. 1. 18. & 3. 13, 14. Jer. 25. 31. ch. 12. 2. Mic. 6. 2. b Jer. 4.22. & 5. 4.

? Heb. bloods.

• Jer. 4. 28. & 12. 4. Amos 5. 16. & 8.8.

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hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and 2 blood toucheth blood.

3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the a Zeph. 1.3. field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

• Deut. 17. 12.

? See Jer. 6.

4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the 4, 5. & 15.8. day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

8 Heb. cut off.

8 Is. 5. 13. 4 Heb. cut off.

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6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they 'set their heart on their iniquity.

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9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them

7 Heb.cause their doings.

to return.

1 Lev. 26.26. Mic. 6. 14. Hag. 1. 6.

m Is. 28. 7. See Eccles. 7.7.

Hab. 2. 19. • Is. 44. 20. ch. 5. 4.

10 For they shall eat, and not have enough they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

12 My people ask counsel at Jer. 2.27. their "stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

the people and the priests.

15 ¶ Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; Sand come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, "nor swear, The LORD liveth.

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16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: zher rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

3

BBFORK CHRIST cir. 780.

. ch. 9. 15.

& 12. 11.

Amos 4.4. & 5. 5.

1 Kings h. 10. 5.

12. 29.

19 a The wind hath bound her up shields. in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them. 7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

Ps. 47. 9. a Jer. 4. 11, 12. & 51. 1. b Is. 1. 29. Jer. 2. 26.

8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, Ŏm Benjamin.

9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

ch. 4. 15. Judg. 5.14.

• Deut. 19.

10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: there- 14. & 27. 17.

Exhortation to repentance.

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 780.

p Deut. 28. 83.

q 1 Kings 12. 28. Mic. 6. 16. r Prov. 12.4. 2 Or, Jer. 30. 12.

a worm.

t 2 Kings
15. 19.
ch. 7. 11.
& 12. 1.

a ch. 10. 6. 8 Or, to the king of Jareb: or, to the king that should plead.

Lam. 3.10. ch. 13. 7, 8.

fore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

11 Ephraim is Poppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after a the commandment.

12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, " and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of wound. your

14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the Ps. 50. 22. house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and

4 Heb. till they be guilty.

Lev. 26.40,

41.

Jer. 29. 12,

13.

Ezek. 6. 9.

& 20. 43.

& 36. 31.

■ Ps. 78. 34.

cir. 780.

■ Deut. 32.

39.

none shall rescue him.

1 Sam. 2.6. he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

Job 5. 18.

ch. 5. 14.

b Jer. 30. 17. c1 Cor. 15.4.

d Is. 54. 13.

f Ps. 72. 6. € Job 29.23.

2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

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3 Then shall we know, if we fol25am.23.4. low on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the 5 Or, mercy, rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

b ch. 11. 8.

or, kindness.

1 ch. 13. 3.

k Jer. 1. 10. & 5. 14.

1 Jer. 23. 29. Heb. 4. 12.

• Or, that thy judg

ments might

be, &c.

m 1 Sam. 15. 22.

Eccles. 5.1.

5

4 TO Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

k

6

5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that Prov. 21.3. goeth forth.

Mic. 6. 8. Matt. 9. 13. & 12.7.

☐ Ps. 50.8, 9.

Is. 1. 11.

• Jer. 22. 16. John 17. 3. 7 Or, like Adam. Job 31. 33. p ch. 8. 1.

q ch. 5. 7.

8 Or, cunning for blood.

6 For I desired m mercy, and "not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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7 But they like men Phave transgressed the covenant: there have ch. 12. 11. they dealt treacherously against me. 8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. 9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests Heb. with murder in the way by consent; for they commit lewdness.

• Jer. 11. 9. Ezek.22.25. ch. 5. 1, 2. one shoulder, or, to Shechem. 2 Or, enormity.

t Jer. 5. 30. a ch.4. 12,

13, 17.

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10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is " the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

cir. 760. ach. 5. 8.

8 Heb. the roof of thy mouth.

b Deut. 28.
49.

Jer. 4. 13.
Hab. 1. 8.

• ch. 6. 7.

d Ps. 78. 34. ch. 5. 15.

• Tit. 1. 16. f 2 Kings 15. 13, 17, 25, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah. g ch. 2. 8. & 13. 2.

CHAPTER VIII.

in the

1, 12 Destruction is threatened for their impiety, 5 and idolatry.

Se stall to 3
YET & the trumpet to thy mouth.

the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

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3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. 4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

5 T Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against Jer. 13.27. them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

I Prov. 22.8. ch. 10.12,13.

instand

corn.

k ch. 7. 9.

12 Kings 17.

6.

6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

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7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall the whirlwind: reap it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

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8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim P hath hired lovers.

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10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gaEzek 267 ther them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

Dan. 2. 37.

ch. 12. 11.

t Deut. 4. 6,

8.

Ps. 119. 18. & 147. 19, 20.

11 Because Ephraim hath made Jer. 7. 21. many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

Zech. 7. 6. 8 Or, In the sacrifices of

12 I have written to him the great mine offer things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing..

ings they, &c.

x Jer. 14. 10, 12.

ch. 5. 6.

& 9.4.

Amos 5. 22.

y ch. 9. 9.

Amos 8.7.

13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their

Egypt it4 They shall not offer wine offer-self butinto ings to the LORD, neither shall they bondage as 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: 56 the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall them possess shall be in their tabernacles.

Dan. 1. 8. 2 Kings 17. ch. 11, 11. ch. 3. 4.

1 Jer. 6. 20. ch. 8. 18.

14.

Deut. 26.

1 Lev. 17.11. m ch. 2. 11.

Heb.spoil ver. 3.

n ch. 7. 16.

5 Or, their silver shall

be desired,

the nettle, &c.

6 Heb. the desire.

o Is. 5. 6. & 32. 13.

& 34. 13.

ch. 10. 8.

Ezek. 13. Mic. 2.11.

3, &c.

Zeph. 3. 4. 7 Heb. man of the spirit. 4 Jer. 6. 17. & 31. 6. & 33. 7.

8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and Ezek. 3. 17. hatred in the house of his God. 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: ch. 10. 9. 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 Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

8 Or, against. r Is. 31. 6.

Judg. 19.

22.

t ch. 8. 13.

11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the Ezek. 20. 8. birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

Amos 4. 5.

Ephraim's sins

BEFORE CHRIST cir. 740.

m Jer. 8. 6, &c. & 8. 5. ch. 4. 10 n ch. 7. 16. 2 Heb. together they exalted not. o Jer. 9. 7. ch. 6. 4.

7 And my people are bent to mbacksliding from me: "though they called them to the most High, 2none at all would exalt him.

8° How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as P Ádmah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repent& 19, 24, 25. ings are kindled together.

p Gen. 14. 8.

Deut. 29. 23.

Amos 4. 11. q Deut. 32. 36.

Is. 63. 15.
Jer. 31. 20.
r Num. 23.
19.

Is. 55. 8, 9.
Mal. 3. 6.

9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.

10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall t Zech. 8. 7. tremble from the west.

Is. 31. 4. Joel 3. 16. Amos 1. 2.

cir. 725.

a ch. 8. 7.

b 2 Kings
17.4.
ch. 5. 13.
& 7.11.
c Is. 30. 6.
& 57.9.

d ch. 4. 1.
Mic. 6. 2.

4 Heb. visit upon.

6 Heb. was

a prince, or, behaved himself princely. Gen. 32. 24, &c.

12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints. CHAPTER XII.

1 A reproof of Ephraim, Judah, and Jacob. 3 By former favours he exhorteth to repent ance. 7 Ephraim's sins provoke God.

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PHRAIM & feedeth on wind, and

E followeth after the east wind:

he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

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2 The LORD hath also a controGen. 25.28. versy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. 3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his Gen. 28.12, strength he had power with God: 4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept,and made supplication unto him; he found him in & Beth-el, and there he spake with us; 5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.

19. & 35. 9,
10, 15.
b Ex. 3. 15.
1 ch. 14. 1.
Mic. 6. 8.

k Ps. 37. 7.

6 Or, Canaan: See Ezek. 16. 3.

1 Prov. 11. 1. Amos 8. 5.

6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and 7Or, deceive.wait on thy God continually. 7 He is a merchant, the ba8 Or, all my lances of deceit are in his hand he loveth to 'oppress.

m Zech.11.5. Rev. 3. 17.

labours suffice me not. he shall have

m

1

8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am punishment become rich, I have found meout subof iniquity in whom is stance: in all my labours they shall sin. find none iniquity in me that were sin.

9 Heb. which.

n ch. 13. 4. • Lev. 23. 42, 43.

9 And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the Zech. 14.18. days of the solemn feast.

Neh. 8. 17.

11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altarsch. 4. 15. are as heaps in the furrows of the fields. 12 And Jacob'fled into the country of Syria, and Israel "served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.

CHAPTER XIII.

Ephraim's glory, by reason of idolatry, vanisheth. 5 God's anger for their unkindness. 9 A promise of God's mercy. 15 A judgment for rebellion.

& 5.5 & 10. 1.

. ch. 8. 11.

t Gen. 28. 5. Deut. 26. 5. u Gen. 29.

20, 28
51. & 13.8.

x Ex. 12. 50,

Ps. 77. 20. Is. 63. 11. Mic. 6.4.

Kings 17. Heb. with

11-18.

bitternesses. + Heb. bloods: See Ezek. 18. 18. & 24. 7, 8. Dan.11.18. a Deut. 28. $7.

cir. 725.

W bling, the exalted himself in 22 Kings 17.

Israel; but when he offended in
Baal, he died.

2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

16, 18.

ch. 11. 2.

Heb. they ch. 2. 8.

add to sin.

& 8. 4.

Or, the

sacrificers of men.

1 Kings 19.

18.

d ch. 6. 4.

Dan. 2. 35.
Is. 43. 11.

ch. 12. 9. 8 Is. 43. 11. & 45. 21. h Deut. 2.7.

& 82. 10. Deut. 8. 15. Heb.

& 32. 10.

7

droughts. * Deut. 8. 12

14. & 32. 15. ch. 8. 14. ch. 5. 14. Jer. 5. 6. Prov. 17.12.

m Lam.3.10.

02Sam.17.8.

8 Heb. the beast of the field.

Prov.6.3

Mal. 1. 9.

a ver. 4. thy help. 2 Rather, thy king?

9 Heb. in

King Hoshea being then in 2Kings17.4.

prison,

r Deut. 32.

ch. 10. 8. 1 Sam.8.5.

ver. 4.