Verse 9
9. Shall his strong cities Those of Ephraim in the day of Assyrian capture.
Be as a forsaken bough Rather, as the abandoned thicket, or forest.
And an uppermost branch Or, mountain height, which men left or abandoned of old, as the Israelites under Joshua compelled. The Septuagint reads: Thy cities shall be “forsaken” in the way the Amorites (mountaineers) and Hivites (lowlanders occupying plains and groves) did forsake (or flee) before the children of Israel. To this rendering essentially most writers now accede. For sins not unlike those of the old races before them is Ephraim also to be punished, and in like way punished, namely, driven from their land.
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