Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke— God has his day of sharp rebukes or chidings for every impenitent sinner; in which sufficient arguments shall be used to render him utterly inexcusable, if he reject them: so that Ephraim shall have nothing to say, why he should not be desolated; yea, so desolated, as to make the beholders amazed thereat, as the Hebrew word שׁמה shammah, imports: the day which now comes, is a day, not of correction but of execution.

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