As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
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Interpretation
God departs from a people, or from a person, when he withdraws his goodness and mercy from them; and when the Lord is departed, what can the creature do? Even though, for the present, good things seem to remain, yet the blessing is gone if God is gone.