Ephraim is a heifer that is taught and that loves to tread out the corn - The object of the metaphor in these three verses seems to be to pi…

Heifer—Translate: Ephraim is a trained heifer, which loves to thresh. Here the idea may be that Ephraim loves the easy an…

Some read the two words, “taught” and “loves,” separately, מלמדה, melamde, and אהבתי, aebti; for they think that at the beginning…

And Ephraim [is as] an heifer [that is] taught, [and] loveth to tread out [the corn]
Like a heifer taught to bear th…

Because God does not desire the death and ruin of sinners, He therefore, in mercy, desires their chastisement. The children of iniquity still remai…