[1] "The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, their sin is hid"
(Hosea xiii. 12). Not that his sin was hid from God, but
his sin is hid; that is, it is recorded, it is laid up
against a day of reckoning. That this is the meaning, is
clear by the foregoing words, his iniquity is bound up; as
the clerk of the assizes binds up the indictments of
malefactors in a bundle, and, at the assizes, brings out
the indictments, and reads them in court, so God binds up
men's sins in a bundle; and, at the day of judgment, this
bundle shall be opened, and all their sins brought to light
before men and angels.--_Watson,_ 1696.