Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 5:12

12 Therefore I will be unto Ephraim as a moth : and to the house of Judah as rottenness .

Or And Heb.

I am, it is concise in the Hebr. and might be thus expressed. But, or And, as for me I am, and will be to the Ten Tribes.

Moths do leisurely eat up and marr our Clothes, so God was then, and had been, from Ieroboam's Death to this day, weakning the Ten Tribes, their Seditions did eat them up.

The Two Tribes who now with Ahaz did as Ephraim cast God off.

Shall secretly consume and rot as wood doth by Worms; so God will punish both Israel and Iudah, these shall be forerunners and preparatories to the final desolation of both; the one by Assyria, and of the other by Babylon.

Marginal references: Or, a worm.