The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up - (As in a bag or purse, and so, “treasured up”), as Job says, using the same word, My transgression…

Bound up ... Hid.— The binding up and hiding away of Ephraim’s sin as in a secret place, for ultimate disclosure,…

How sadly true this is! Sin seems to be bound up in our very nature. It is hard to find it; it is hidden away; and when we discover some of it, and…

He says, first, that sealed is the iniquity of Ephraim, and that hidden is his sin; by which words he means that hypocrites flatt…

The iniquity of Ephraim [is] bound up; his sin [is] hid .

Israel had destroyed himself by his rebellion; but he could not save himself, his help was from the Lord only. This may well be applied to the case…