Hosea 12:14

"By a prophet the LORD brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved."

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From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Ephraim provoked -the Lord most bitterly Literally, “with bitternesses,” i. e., with most heinous sins, such as are most grievously displeasing to God, and were a most bitter requital of all His goodness. “Wherefore He shall leave” (or, “cast”) “his blood” (literally, “bloods”) “upon him.” The plural “bloods” expresses the manifoldness of the bloodshed . It is not used in Holy Scripture of mere guilt. Ephraim had shed blood profusely, so that it ran like water in the land (see the notes above atHosea 4:2;Hosea 5:2). He had sinned with a high hand against God, in destroying man made in the image of God.

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