Hosea 7:8

Ephraim hath mixed himself with the nations; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

In Context

7They all glow as an oven; They have devoured their judges; All their kings have fallen; And none among them calleth upon me.

9Strangers have devoured his strength, And he knoweth it not; Yea, gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, Yet he knoweth it not.

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Cross References

Psalms 106:35They mingled themselves with the peoples, And learned their practices.

Hosea 5:7They have been false to Jehovah, For they have begotten strange children; Now shall the new moon consume them with their possessions.

Hosea 8:2They shall say to me, My God, we know thee, we, thine Israel!

Zephaniah 1:5And those who bow themselves on the house-tops to the host of heaven, And those who bow themselves and swear by Jehovah, And also swear by their idol,

Matthew Henry on Hosea 7:2-8

Charge Drawn up against Israel; The Crimes of the Princes. ( b. c. 750.) 1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. 2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 4 They are… Read the whole commentary →

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