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They will fall by the sword; their infants will be dashed and their pregnant women split open.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first two verses summarize Ephraim&#8217;s disloyal past and present \u2013 &#8220;When Ephraim spoke there was trembling \u2026 he became guilty through Baal \u2026 Now they continue to sin&#8221;. The third verse describes Ephraim&#8217;s future. The northern kingdom will simply disappear, like the morning dew that evaporates in the heat of the sun, leaving no remnant or trace on the ground. Hosea used the same metaphor earlier to describe the fleeting nature of Israel&#8217;s love, so shallow that it fades away like early morning moisture. Such irony &#8211; or <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">middah keneged middah\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(measure for measure). Their relationships were all shallow and fleeting, without any sense of permanence \u2013 and so too will be their end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hosea continues with a description of Israel as a flock that has been abandoned by its protector. Suddenly, the flock finds themselves open and exposed to the ravenous creatures that surround it \u2013 even worse, Hosea uses the image of the shepherd that transforms into lions, leopards, bears. Not only will God abandon them to their fate, God promises to actively pursue the nation to destroy them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps the most fascinating metaphor that Hosea uses to describes the stubbornness and obstinacy of the people, and their failure to embrace the changes that they need to make in their lives &#8211; is that of an unborn child \u2013 &#8220;Pangs of a woman in confinement shall come to him: he is an unwise son, for it is a time that he shall not stand in the birth stool of the children.&#8221; The commentators generally interpret the metaphor to refer to the pain of childbirth (Rashi) or the failure of the recent generations to learn from previous mistakes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the simplest understanding is as follows: the prophet states that the time for birth has arrived, but the child, fearful of the danger of the passage and the uncertainty of the world outside the womb chooses to remain in the womb, where he\/she believes there is safety and comfort. Why risk change and the opportunity for a new life and existence, when the present one is so comfortable?\u00a0 Better to stay in the womb, even to die there, then to come out into the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obviously this child (or anyone afraid of making changes that are necessary for survival) with its desire to hold onto the past, no matter how destructive, has no future to look forward to.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":76648,"id":76648,"title":"hos13-tunnel","filename":"hos13-tunnel.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos13-tunnel.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/failure-to-exit\/hos13-tunnel\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"hos13-tunnel","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":76647,"date":"2020-06-29 15:26:16","modified":"2020-06-29 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