8Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-9)Let us now hear the conclusion of the whole matter. I. Concerning Ephraim; he is spoken of and spoken to, Hos. 14:8. Here we have, 1. His repentance and reformation: Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols ? As some read it, God here reasons and argues with him, why he should renounce idolatry: “ O Ephraim! what to me and idols? What concord or agreement can there be between me an…
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