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Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
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A Point of No Return
Commentators stress that this judgment is not a temporary or corrective discipline. After repeated, ignored warnings, God declares a final and irreversible desolation for Ephraim. John Calvin explains this is no longer a 'paternal correction' meant to inspire repentance, but a 'final destruction' for a people who had become 'entirely senseless.'
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Ephraim shall be desolate - It shall not be lightly rebuked, nor even more grievously chastened. It shall not simply be wasted by f…
16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet asserts, plainly and without figurative language, that their punishment would not be slight or paternal. Instead, God would punish…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Ephraim shall he desolate in the day of rebuke The country of the ten tribes shall be laid desolate, the inhabitants of t…
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