Like A Tree
O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit. (Hosea 14:8)
As the prophet Hosea wrote this, the nation of Israel was in a state of disobedience to God. They had once again gone after idols, forsaking the one and only true God. As God speaks directly to the tribe of Ephraim, pointing out that He is not like the idols, He is alive, responding and looking after His people, He then uses a simile that can get easily overlooked: “I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit.”
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