The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
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Gill's Exposition
The wind hath bound her up in her wings,.... That is, the wind in its wings hath bound up Ephraim, Israel, or the ten tribes, compared to a heifer; meaning, that the wind of God's wrath and vengeance,…
Barnes' Notes
The wind hath bound her up in her wings - When God brought Israel out of Egypt, He “bare them on eagle’s wings, and brought them unto Himself” Exo 19:4; Deu 32:11. Now they had abandoned God, and God…
Adam Clarke
The wind hath bound her - A parching wind has blasted them in their wings - coasts, borders; or they are carried away into captivity, as with the most rapid blight. These two last verses are very…
In these verses we have, as before,
I. The sins charged upon the people of Israel, for which God had a controversy with them, and they are,
1. Spiritual whoredom, or idolatry. They have in them a…
Cambridge Bible
The wind hath bound her up in her wings A figure for the suddenness and violence with which the enemy should carry Israel away into exile (comp. Isa 57:13), The perfect is that of prophetic certitude.
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