“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.”
The characterization of the prophet as a sentinel over Ephraim yet beset with snares on all his paths suggests that the prophet's position is fraught with danger, that his attempt to warn Israel of judgment has made him an object of enmity. The hostility against the prophet parallels the hostility against God, suggesting that those who reject God's message reject God's messenger. This verse establishes the prophet's isolation and vulnerability as a consequence of their faithfulness to the prophetic calling.
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