Ephraim is oppressed, He is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
We cannot leave this without stressing that our present world is filled with people who are doing exactly the same thing that Ephraim did, walking after men's commandments.  They do so in the so-called "forms" of baptism they preach and practice, in the "non-observance" of the Lord's Supper on the Lord's Day, in the names, doctrines, and theologies of their churches, in their immoralities, drunkenness, adulteries, violence, and countless other ways.  As the Lord himself declared, "In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men"  (Matthew 15:9).