15Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
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But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Commentary
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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