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Hosea 7:8
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Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations.Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.
Efrayim, he mixes himself among the nations. Efrayim is a pancake not turned over.
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Ephraim is himself thrown about with the nations; Ephraim has become a round loaf not turned over.
"Israel mixes with other nations; he is like a pancake cooked only on one side.
Ephraim mixes himself with the [Gentile] nations [seeking favor with one country, then another]; Ephraim is a cake not turned [worthless; ready to be thrown away].
Ephraim hath mixt himselfe among the people. Ephraim is as a cake on the hearth not turned.
Ephraim mixes himself with the nations; Ephraim has become a cake not turned.
Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples;Ephraim has become a cake not turned.
Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake.
The people of Israel have mixed with foreigners; they are a thin piece of bread scorched on one side.
"Efrayim mixes himself with the peoples, Efrayim has become a half-baked cake.
Ephraim, he mixeth himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
"Ephraim mixes with the nations. Ephraim is like a cake that was not cooked on both sides.
Ephraim has mixed himself with Gentiles; Ephraim has become as a loaf of bread which is eaten before it is baked.
The Lord says, "The people of Israel are like a half-baked loaf of bread. They rely on the nations around them
Ephraim mixes himself with the nations; Ephraim is a bread cake not turned over.
Ephraim mixed himself among the peoples. Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Ephraim is mixed with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Ephraim, he mixeth himself with the peoples; Ephraim is become a cake not turned.
Ephraim, he hath mixed himselfe among the people, Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Ephraim hath mixt him selfe among [heathen] people, Ephraim is become like a cake that no man turneth.
Ephraim is mixed among his people; Ephraim became a cake not turned.
Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.
Effraym hym silf was medlid among puplis; Effraym was maad a loof bakun vndur aischis, which is not turned ayen.
Ephraim, he mixes himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Ephraim has mixed itself like flour among the nations; Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side.
"The people of Israel mingle with godless foreigners, making themselves as worthless as a half-baked cake!
"Ephraim mixes with the nations. Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
As for Ephraim! with the peoples, hath he been mingling himself, - Ephraim, is a cake not turned.
Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not turned.
E'phraim mixes himself with the peoples; E'phraim is a cake not turned.
Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned.
Therfore must Ephraim be mixte amonge ye Heithen. Ephraim is become like a cake, yt no man turneth:
"Ephraim mingles with the pagans, dissipating himself. Ephraim is half-baked. Strangers suck him dry but he doesn't even notice. His hair has turned gray— he doesn't notice. Bloated by arrogance, big as a house, Israel's a public disgrace. Israel lumbers along oblivious to God , despite all the signs, ignoring God .
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
he hath: Hosea 5:7, Hosea 5:13, Hosea 9:3, Ezra 9:1, Ezra 9:12, Nehemiah 13:23-25, Psalms 106:35, Ezekiel 23:4-11, Malachi 2:11
a cake: Hosea 8:2-4, 1 Kings 18:21, Zephaniah 1:5, Matthew 6:24, Revelation 3:15, Revelation 3:16
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 30:1 - Ephraim Hosea 10:2 - Their heart is divided James 1:8 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people,.... Either locally, by dwelling among them, as some of them at least might do among the Syrians; or carnally, by intermarrying with them, contrary to the command of God; or civilly, by entering into alliances and confederacies with them, as Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel did with Rezin king of Syria, Isaiah 7:2; or by seeking to them for help, calling to Egypt, and going to Assyria, as in Hosea 7:11; so Aben Ezra; or morally, by learning their manners, and conforming to their customs, especially in religious things: though some understand this as a punishment threatened them for their above sins, that they should be carried captive into foreign lands, and so be mixed among the people, and which is Jarchi's sense: but it is rather to be considered as their evil in joining with other nations in their superstition, idolatry, and other impieties; and it is highly offensive to God when his professing people mix themselves with the world, keep company with the men of it, fashion themselves according to them, do as they do, and wilfully go into their conversation, and repeat it, and continue therein, and resolve to do so: for so it may be rendered, "he will mix himself" r; it denotes a voluntary act, repeated and persisted in with obstinacy;
Ephraim is a cake not turned; like a cake that is laid on coats, if it is not turned, the nether part will be burnt, and the upper part unbaked, and so be good for noticing; not fit to be eaten, being nothing indeed, neither bread nor dough; and so may signify, that Ephraim having introduced much of the superstition and idolatry of the Gentiles into religious worship, was nothing in religion, neither fish nor flesh, as is proverbially said of persons and things of which nothing can be made; they worshipped the calves at Dan and Bethel, and Yet swore by the name of the Lord; they halted between two opinions, and were of neither; they were like the hotch potch inhabitants of Samaria in later times, that came in their place, that feared the Lord, and served their own gods: and such professors of religion there are, who are nothing in religion; nothing in principle, they have no scheme of principles; they are neither one thing nor another; they are nothing in experience; if they have a form of godliness, they deny the power of it; they are nothing in practice, all they do is to be seen of men; they are neither hot nor cold, especially not throughout, or on both sides, like a cake unturned; but are lukewarm and indifferent, and therefore very disagreeable to the Lord. Some take this to be expressive of punishment, and not of fault; either of their partial captivity by Tiglathpileser, when only a part of them was carried captive; or of the swift and total destruction of them by their enemies, who would be like hungry and half starved persons, who meeting with a cake on the coals half baked, snatch it up, and eat it, not staying for the turning and baking it on the other side; and thus it should be with them. So the Targum,
"the house of Ephraim is like to a cake baked on coals, which before it is turned is eaten.''
r הוא יתבולל "miscebit sese", Zanchius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people - i. e., with the pagan; he “mixed” or “mingled” himself among or with them, so as to corrupt himself, as it is said, “they were mingled among the pagan and learned their works” Psalms 106:35. God had forbidden all intermarriage with the pagan Exodus 34:12-16, lest His people should corrupt themselves: they thought themselves wiser than He, intermarried, and were corrupted. Such are the ways of those who put themselves amid occasions of sin.
Ephraim is - (literally, “is become”) a cake (literally, “on the coals”) not turned The prophet continues the image . “Ephraim” had been “mingled,” steeped, kneaded up into one, as it were, “with the pagan,” their ways, their idolatries, their vices. God would amend them, and they, withholding themselves from His discipline, and not yielding themselves wholly to it, were but spoiled. The sort of cake, to which Ephraim is here likened, “uggah” literally, “circular,” was a thin pancake, to which a scorching heat was applied on one side; sometimes by means of hot charcoal heaped upon it; sometimes, (it is thought,) the fire was within the earthen jar, around which the thin dough was fitted. If it remained long “unturned,” it was burned on the one side; while it continued unbaked, doughy, recking, on the other; the fire spoiling, not penetrating it through. Such were the people; such are too many so-called Christians; they united in themselves hypocrisy and ungodliness, outward performance and inward lukewarmness; the one overdone, but without any wholesome effect on the other. The one was scorched and black; the other, steamed, damp, and lukewarm; the whole worthless, spoiled irremediably, fit only to be cast away. The fire of God’s judgment, with which the people should have been amended, made but an outward impression upon them, and reached not within, nor to any thorough change, so that they were the more hopelessly spoiled through the means which God used for their amendment.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 7:8. A cake not turned. — In the East having heated the hearth, they sweep one corner, put the cake upon it, and cover it with embers; in a short time they turn it, cover it again, and continue this several times, till they find it sufficiently baked. All travellers into Asiatic countries have noted this.
