Ephraim shall say, what have I to do anymore with idols? – So Isaiah foretells, The idols He shall utterly abolish ([Reference Isai…

It would be better to adopt the slightly different reading indicated by the rendering of the Septuagint, and translate, As for Ephraim, what ha…

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? (Hosea 14:8)

The Prophet again introduces the Israelites speaking as before, in which they deplore their blindness and folly, and renounce in the future their s…

Ephraim [shall say], what have I to do any more with idols ? &c.] This is to be understood, not of apostate Ephraim, as i…

Israel seeks God's face, and they shall not seek it in vain. His anger is turned from them. Whom God loves, He loves freely—not because they deserv…