The watchman — The old true prophets indeed were with God. My God — The God of Hosea. The prophet — The false prophets have, as well as the people, left God. Is a snare — Their pretended predictions are but a snare, such as fowlers lay. And hatred — Such prophets are full of hatred and malice: yea, they are hatred itself.
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Hosea 9:8
8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.