O Ephraim, what to Me any more with idols? I -- I afflicted, and I cause him to sing: 'I am as a green fir-tree,' From Me is thy fruit found.Hosea 14:8 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleWhat have I to do any more with idols? - The conversion of Ephraim is now as complete as if was sincere. God hears and observes this.
I am like a green fir tree - Perhaps these words should be joined to the preceding, as Newcome has done, and be a part of God's speech to Ephraim. "I have heard him; and I have seen him as a flourishing fir tree." He is become strong and vigorous; and from his present appearance of healthiness, his future increase and prosperity may be safely anticipated.
From me is thy fruit found - All thy goodness springs from the principle of grace which I have planted in thy soul; for as the earth cannot bring forth fruit without the blessing of God, sending the dews and rains, with the genial rays of the sun, so neither can the soul of man, even of the most pious, bear fruit, without a continual influence from the Most High. Without the former, neither grass could grow for cattle, nor corn for the service of man; without the latter, no seeds of righteousness could take root, no stalk of promise could grow, no fruit of grace could be produced. And the unclean spirit, which was cast out, would soon return; and, finding his former house empty, swept, and garnished, would re-enter with seven demons of greater power and worse influence; and the latter end of that man would be worse than the first. Reader, ever consider that all thy good must be derived from God; and all that good must be preserved in thee by his continued influence of light, love, and power upon thy soul.
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What.
Hosea 14:2,3 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously...
Job 34:32 That which I see not teach you me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
Acts 19:18-20 And many that believed came, and confessed, and showed their deeds...
1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had to you...
1 Peter 1:14-16 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance...
1 Peter 4:3,4 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts...
I have.
Job 33:27 He looks on men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
Jeremiah 31:18-20 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke...
Luke 15:20 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...
John 1:47,48 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!...
I am.
Isaiah 41:19 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...
Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree...
Isaiah 60:13 The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary...
From me.
John 1:16 And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.
John 15:1-8 I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer...
Galatians 5:22,23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith...
Ephesians 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Philippians 1:11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Philippians 2:13 For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no ficklenss...
Hosea 14:8 Parallel Commentaries
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