1'll make Ephraim to ride

I'le make Ephraim to ride.

Still take this in a way of threatening; in Scripture it's applied both to a way of mercy and judgment, in (Isaiah 58:14). Then shall you delight yourself in the Lord, and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the Earth. And I find it in a way of judgment, in (Job 30:21, 22). With your strong hand you opposest yourself against me, you liftest me up to the wind, you causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance. And so there might be shown other Scriptures where this expression is in a way of judgment, and so it's thought by interpreters that it has reference to the speedy captivity of the ten tribes that they shall be carried out of their own country. As if God should say, by his ease, and by his much feeding, in treading out the corn he is grown so fat and lusty that there's no ruling of him; yes, but says God, I will ride him: though he kicks and spurns and is so unruly with his fat feeding, yet I'le put such a curb into his mouth, as I'le order him and rule him according as I please. He is so fierce; for so I find that the word in the Hebrew that is for fierceness, tumultuousness, and insolency, it is by divers taken for the word that signifies, to be at peace, because that peace, and ease, and rest makes the hearts of men and women insolent. It was so with Ephraim, just like a pampered horse that is kept at full feeding, none can ride him; I but, I'le cause him to ride, says God.

God has ways to curb men and women that through their prosperity are delicate and unruly, though they may champ upon the bit, and foam at the mouth, and stamp again, yet God will rule them; I'le cause Ephraim to ride.