Not to the most high — What shew soever of repentance was among them, yet they never throughly repented. A deceitful bow — Tho' they seemed bent for, and aiming at the mark, yet like a weak bow they carried not the arrow home, and like a false bow they never carried it strait toward the mark. The rage of their tongue — Against God, his prophets and providence. Their derision — They shall be upbraided with this.
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Hosea 7:16
16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.