CRown of pride] The proud haughtinesse of Israel, the ten tribes; drunk with prosperitie, and addicted to sensualitie: Hosea 5:5. & Hosea 4:11. & 7. 5, 10. Amos 6. 1, 4-6.
to the drunkards] Or, of the.
Ephraim] Chap. 7. 2.
glorious beauty] Heb. beauty of glory. vers 4.
a fading flower] Psal. 103. 15, 16. Chap. 40. 6, 7.
fat valleys] Having many fat (that is, fertile, Genesis 27:39.) valleys. Genesis 49:25. Deuteronomy 33:19. and hence Gethsemane, Matthew 26:36. situate about the foot of mount Olivet, as some of these beneath mount Lebanon, had its name.
overcome] Heb. broken: or, smitten. Proverbs 23:35. See vers. 7.