14HE HAS PROVOKED TO ANGER EPHRAIM BITTERNESS<ES> AND BLOOD<S> HIS ON HIM HE WILL LEAVE AND REPROACH HIS HE WILL REPAY TO HIM LORD<S> HIS 14Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt upon him and repay him for his contempt.
1WHEN SPOKE EPHRAIM TREMBLING HE LIFTED UP HE IN ISRAEL AND HE BECAME GUILTY BY <THE> BAAL AND HE DIED God’s Anger against Israel 1When Ephraim*NoteCloseThat is, the northern kingdom of Israel; also in verse 12 spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died.
2AND NOW THEY INCREASE TO SIN AND THEY HAVE MADE FOR THEMSELVES A MOLTEN IMAGE FROM SILVER THEIR ACCORDING TO SKILL THEIR IDOLS [IS THE] WORK OF CRAFTSMEN ALL OF IT OF THEM THEY [ARE] SAYING [THOSE WHO] OFFER SACRIFICE OF HUMANKIND CALVES THEY WILL KISS! 2Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”*NoteCloseOr “The men who sacrifice kiss the calves!” See 1 Kings 19:18.
3<TO> THEREFORE THEY WILL BECOME LIKE A CLOUD OF [THE] MORNING AND LIKE <THE> DEW RISING EARLY GOING LIKE CHAFF [WHICH] IT IS STORM-DRIVEN FROM A THRESHING FLOOR AND LIKE SMOKE FROM A WINDOW 3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
4AND I [AM] YAHWEH GOD YOUR FROM [THE] LAND OF EGYPT AND GODS BESIDES ME NOT YOU MUST KNOW AND [IS] A DELIVERER THERE NOT EXCEPT ME 4Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me.
5I I KNEW YOU IN THE WILDERNESS IN A LAND OF DROUGHT<S> 5I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
6ACCORDING TO PASTURE THEIR AND THEY WERE SATISFIED THEY WERE SATISFIED AND IT WAS EXALTED HEART THEIR THERE- -FORE THEY FORGOT ME 6When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
7AND I BECAME TO THEM LIKE A LION LIKE A LEOPARD ON A ROAD I WILL WATCH 7So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
8I WILL MEET THEM LIKE A BEAR ROBBED OF CUBS SO I MAY TEAR [THE] CAVITY OF HEART THEIR AND I WILL DEVOUR THEM THERE LIKE A LION <THE> ANIMAL OF THE FIELD IT WILL TEAR TO PIECES THEM 8Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast tearing them apart.
9IT WILL DESTROY YOU O ISRAEL FOR IN ME IN HELPER YOUR Death and Resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:50–58) 9You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me— against your helper.
10WHERE? [IS] KING YOUR THEN SO HE MAY SAVE YOU IN ALL CITIES YOUR AND RULERS YOUR WHOM YOU SAID GIVE! TO ME A KING AND LEADERS 10Where is your king now*NoteCloseOr Shall I be your King now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?
11I GAVE TO YOU A KING IN ANGER MY SO I MAY TAKE [HIM] AWAY IN WRATH MY 11So in My anger I gave you a king, and in My wrath I took him away.
12[IS] BOUND UP [THE] INIQUITY OF EPHRAIM [IS] STORED UP SIN HIS 12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.
13[THE] PAINS OF [ONE WHO] GIVES BIRTH THEY WILL COME TO HIM HE [IS] A SON NOT WISE IF A TIME NOT HE WILL PRESENT HIMSELF AT BIRTH OF CHILDREN 13Labor pains come upon him, but he is an unwise son. When the time arrives, he fails to present himself at the opening of the womb.
14FROM [THE] HAND OF SHEOL WILL I RANSOM? THEM FROM DEATH WILL I REDEEM? THEM WHERE? [ARE] THORNS YOUR O DEATH WHERE? [IS] DESTRUCTION YOUR O SHEOL COMPASSION IT WILL BE HIDDEN FROM EYES MY 14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death.*NoteCloseOr Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting?*NoteCloseLXX Where, O Death, is your penalty? Where, O Hades, is your sting? Cited in 1 Corinthians 15:55 Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
15FOR HE A SON BROTHERS HE FLOURISHES IT WILL COME AN EAST WIND [THE] WIND OF YAHWEH FROM [THE] WILDERNESS [IS] ABOUT TO COME UP AND IT MAY BE WITHERED SPRING HIS SO IT MAY BE DRIED UP SPRING HIS IT IT WILL PLUNDER [THE] TREASURY OF EVERY ARTICLE OF PRECIOUSNESS Judgment on Samaria 15Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come— a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
16IT WILL BE HELD GUILTY SAMARIA FOR IT HAS REBELLED AGAINST GOD ITS BY THE SWORD THEY WILL FALL CHILDREN THEIR THEY WILL BE DASHED IN PIECES AND PREGNANT [WOMEN] ITS THEY WILL BE RIPPED OPEN 16Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.