Hosea 7:8
Good News Translation
The LORD says, "The people of Israel are like a half-baked loaf of bread. They rely on the nations around them

New Revised Standard Version
Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

Contemporary English Version
The people of Israel have mixed with foreigners; they are a thin piece of bread scorched on one side.

New American Bible
Ephraim is mixed with the nations, Ephraim is an unturned cake.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not turned.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not turned.

he hath.

Hosea 5:7,13 They have transgressed against the Lord: for they have begotten children that are strangers: now shall a month devour them with their portions. . . .

Hosea 9:3 They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians.

Ezra 9:1,12 And after these things were accomplished, the princes came to me, saying: The people of Israel, and the priests and Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, and from their abominations, namely, of the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, and the Pherezites, and the Jebusites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites, and the Egyptians, and the Amorrhites. . . .

Nehemiah 13:23-25 In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab. . . .

Psalm 106:35 And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works:

Ezekiel 23:4-11 And their names were Oolla the elder, and Ooliba her younger sister: and I took them, and they bore sons and daughters. Now for their names, Samaria is Oolla, and Jerusalem is Ooliba. . . .

Malachi 2:11 Juda hath transgressed, and abomination hath been committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem: for Juda hath profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

a cake.

Hosea 8:2-4 They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee. . . .

1 Kings 18:21 And Elias coming to all the people, said: How long do you halt between two sides? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people did not answer him a word.

Zephaniah 1:5 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the tops of houses, and them that adore, and swear by the Lord, and swear by Melchom.

Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

Revelation 3:15,16 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would thou wert cold or hot. . . .

Context
Ephraim's Iniquity
7They were all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings have fallen: there is none amongst them that calleth unto me. 8Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not turned.9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knew it not: yea, grey hairs also are spread about upon him, and he is ignorant of it.…
Cross References
Psalm 106:35
And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works:

Hosea 7:9
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knew it not: yea, grey hairs also are spread about upon him, and he is ignorant of it.

Hosea 7:7
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