For I will be to Ephraim as a lion - He who would in this way strengthen himself by outward help against God's chastisements challenges, as …

As a lion. —First the trans-Jordanic tribes, then additional provinces, and lastly the whole population, were carried away as in t…

As I have said, the Prophet confirms this truth: that Israel turned in vain to false physicians when they left God. How so? Because the whole world…

For I [will be] to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah
Being provoked by their above conduc…

The destruction of impenitent sinners is not mere talk, to frighten them; it is a sentence which will not be recalled. And it is a mercy that we ha…