1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
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In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: …
He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher. …
But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Here, I. The prophet warns the kingdom of the ten tribes of the judgments that were coming upon them for their sins, which were soon after executed by the king of Assyria, who laid their country waste, and carried the people into captivity. Ephraim had his name from fruitfulness , their soil being very fertile and the products of it abundant and the best of the kind; they had a great many fat vall…
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