12Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
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For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: …
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-15)Here is, I. A loud alarm sounded, giving notice of judgments coming (Hos. 5:8): Blow you the cornet in Gibeah and in Ramah , two cities near together in the confines of the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel, Gibeah a frontier-town of the kingdom of Judah, Ramah of Israel; so that the warning is hereby sent into both kingdoms. “ Cry aloud at Beth-aven , or Bethel, which place seems to be already sei…
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