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High ancient watchtower with anonymous watcher, empty fowler trap on the path below, no imprisoned prophet; metaphor illustration keeps no single imposed interpretation of difficult wording.
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Hosea 9:8

The Watchman and the Snare

The Days of Repayment · Hosea 9

Story guide: Prophetic illustration grounded in the verse; national designations and metaphors are not newly narrated events.

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8Ephraim’s watchman is with my God; the prophet is a fowler’s snare on all his ways, and hostility is in the house of his God.

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