I will be to them as a lion - They had grown fat and were full; yet this was so they would become prey themselves. Their wealth, wh…

I will be ...—More correctly, have become ... as a panther in the way I lie in wait. The idea of this and the fo…

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.

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The Prophet again proclaims God's vengeance against the Israelites. Since they had become torpid through their own flatteries, as we have often obs…

Therefore I will be to them as a lion, Because of their idolatry, ingratitude, luxury, and especially their forgetfulness…

As long as Ephraim maintained a holy fear of God and worshipped Him in that fear, he was very significant. When Ephraim abandoned God and followed …