They shall conte with weeping] Lamenting their sinnes. Vers. 18. Chap. 50. 4. Or, weeping for joy, Genesis 43:30.
with supplications] Or, favours. Zechariah 12:10.
I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters, in a streight way] Or, an even way. Isaiah 40:3. & Isaiah 63:14. Where there shall be no impediment; nor want of necessaries: Isa. 40. 3, 4. & 41. 18. and 43. 19, 20. An allusion to a shepheard driving, and disposing of his sheep with the most conveniencie, Psal, 23. 1, 2.
Ephraim is my first-born] My dearly beloved; as is the firstborn to his father, Exodus 4:22. Psalms 89:27. Hebrews 12:23. Vers. 20.