The watchman of Ephraim] The faithfull prophets who are the Churches watchmen, Isaiah 21:11. &Isaiah 62:6. Ezekiel 3:17. are dead and gathered up into celestiall rest: the false ones which yet remain, are so farre from keeping it from ruine, that they drive and cast it down headlong into it Others say the false prophets watch the godly in Ephraim which yet sticke close to God, to insnare them. See 1 Kings 19:18. hatred] The chief occasion of Gods wrath, and of the reprobation of Gods people who are as it were his family. in the house of his God] Or, against. As Hosea 8:1.