Ephraim Punished
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Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.
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Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.
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Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pleasant meadow like (AD)Tyre;
But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
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Is planted in a pleasant meadow like (AD)Tyre;
But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
Footnotes:
a.
Hosea 9:1: ['Lit ', to]
b.
Hosea 9:1: ['Lit ', peoples]
c.
Hosea 9:1: ['Lit ', away from your God]
d.
Hosea 9:1: ['Lit ', all threshing floors of grain]
e.
Hosea 9:2: ['Lit ', her]
f.
Hosea 9:4: ['Lit be ', to them]
g.
Hosea 9:4: ['Or ', bread of misfortune]
h.
Hosea 9:4: ['Lit ', their appetite]
i.
Hosea 9:7: ['Or ', Israel will know it]
j.
Hosea 9:7: ['Lit ', man of the spirit]
k.
Hosea 9:9: ['Lit ', they have corrupted]
l.
Hosea 9:10: ['I.e. Baal']
m.
Hosea 9:12: ['Lit ', without a man]
Cross references:
B.
Hosea 9:1:
Hosea 4:12
F.
Hosea 9:3:
Hosea 7:11
M.
Hosea 9:6:
Isaiah 19:13; Jeremiah 2:16; Jeremiah 44:1; Jeremiah 46:14; Jeremiah 46:19; Ezekiel 30:13; Ezekiel 30:16
T.
Hosea 9:9:
Isaiah 31:6
W.
Hosea 9:10:
Micah 7:1
AE.
Hosea 9:14:
Hosea 9:11
AI.
Hosea 9:16:
Hosea 5:11
AJ.
Hosea 9:16:
Hosea 8:7
AK.
Hosea 9:16:
Ezekiel 24:21
AL.
Hosea 9:17:
Hosea 4:10
AM.
Hosea 9:17:
Hosea 7:13