12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
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My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? …
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-16)The first of these verses is the summary, or contents, of all the rest (Hos. 14:9), where we have, 1. All the blame of Israel’s ruin laid upon themselves: O Israel! thy perdition is thence ; it is of and from thyself; or, “ It has destroyed thee, O Israel ! that is, all that sin and folly of thine which thou art before charged with. As thy own wickedness has many a time corrected thee , so that ha…
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