Ephraim, like I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; But Ephraim will bring out his children to the killer.
The comment here regarding Tyre compares the favorable situation of that pagan city to the favorable situation of Ephraim in Canaan; but neither material prosperity, nor strategic military position could avert the avenging stroke of the wrath of God when it was time for the judgment to fall.  This chapter identified that time for Israel as NOW.