Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 12:14

14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly : therefore shall he leave his blood upon him : and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.

After all the means used from time to time to reclaim Idolatrous sinning Israel, yet still they provoked God to indignation by their Idolatries, perjuries, oppressions, murthers and all manner of sins which use to be ri[illegible: 1 letter]e among Idolaters, these things were bitterness unto God.

Seeing he will inco[illegible: 1 letter]rigibly persist as he hath begun, and end in▪ sin and misery.

He shall bear the guilt and punishment of all his blood, his murthers of the innocent, of those that testified against him and as one who hath murther'd himself shall bear his own guilt too.

Which Ephraim hath cast upon the Prophets, and pious worshippers of God; all the reproach Ephraim hath cast on God▪ preferring Idols before him.

Either God who is Lord of all, or the Assyrian King and his Princes, Lording it over captive Ephraim, God shall by these return the shame on Ephraim which he cast on God, his Worship, Temple and Prophets.

Marginal references: Heb. with his bitternesses.; Heb. blood[illegible: 1 letter].