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The pride of Israel: it might have been rendered, the excellency or glory of Israel; and so, referred to God, it would be a prediction that God himself would witness against Israel. God is said to swear by the excellency of Jacob, Amo_8:7, i.e. by himself. Thus interpreted, it would very well accord with what follows in this and the following verse. But as it is here rendered, it is the haughtiness, carnal confidence of Israel, grown great under the long and prosperous reign of Jeroboam the Second, that they thought it impossible such calamities as foretold by the prophet should overtake them, or that God should think so ill of that worship they thought so well of; they neither confess their sins, nor fear God’s judgments.
Doth testify; is so full and evident witness against Israel, that no other testimony need be produced.
To his face; to convince and silence the most impudent and shameless among them.
Therefore shall Israel and Ephraim, the nine tribes, and the head of them, Ephraim,
fall in their iniquity; be ruined for their sins of which they are guilty, but repent not.
Judah, the two tribes under Ahaz, now lapsed to idolatry, also shall fall with them; be captivated too ere long, soon after sin will undo them.