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Ephraim is a flat loaf not turned over.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/hosea/7.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />“The people of Israel mingle with godless foreigners, making themselves as worthless as a half-baked cake!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/hosea/7.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/hosea/7.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/hosea/7.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/hosea/7.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake unturned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/hosea/7.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Ephraim is himself thrown about with the nations; Ephraim has become a round loaf not turned over.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/hosea/7.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Ephraim mixes himself with the nations; Ephraim has become a cake not turned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/hosea/7.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Ephraim mixes himself with the nations; Ephraim has become a cake not turned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/hosea/7.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim has become a cake not turned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/hosea/7.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />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].<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/hosea/7.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations. Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/hosea/7.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations. Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hosea/7.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/hosea/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The people of Israel have mixed with foreigners; they are a thin piece of bread scorched on one side. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hosea/7.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/hosea/7.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"Ephraim mixes with other nations. Ephraim, you are like a half-baked loaf of bread.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/hosea/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The LORD says, "The people of Israel are like a half-baked loaf of bread. They rely on the nations around them <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/hosea/7.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"Ephraim compromises with the nations; he's a half-baked cake. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/hosea/7.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/hosea/7.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Ephraim has mixed itself like flour among the nations; Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/hosea/7.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hosea/7.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hosea/7.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Ephraim mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/hosea/7.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Ephraim! He mixes himself among peoples, "" Ephraim has been an unturned cake.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hosea/7.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/hosea/7.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Ephraim will mingle himself among my people; Ephraim was a cake not turned.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hosea/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not turned. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/hosea/7.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Ephraim himself has been mingled with the nations. Ephraim has become like bread, baked under ashes, that has not been turned over.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Ephraim is mixed with the nations, Ephraim is an unturned cake. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/hosea/7.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Ephraim has mixed himself with Gentiles; Ephraim has become as a loaf of bread which is eaten before it is baked.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/hosea/7.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Aphreim is mixed among the Gentiles; Aphreim was a cake; before it was baked it was eaten<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/hosea/7.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Ephraim, he mixeth himself with the peoples; Ephraim is become a cake not turned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/hosea/7.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Ephraim is mixed among his people; Ephraim became a cake not turned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-8.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=1023" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/hosea/7.htm">Ephraim's Iniquity</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">7</span>All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me. <span class="reftext">8</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/669.htm" title="669: ’ep̄·ra·yim (N-proper-ms) -- Dual of masculine form of 'Ephraath; double fruit; Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory.">Ephraim</a> <a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: hū (Pro-3ms) -- He, she, it. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/1101.htm" title="1101: yiṯ·bō·w·lāl (V-Hitpael-Imperf-3ms) -- To mingle, mix, confuse, confound. A primitive root; to overflow; by implication, to mix; also to fodder.">mixes</a> <a href="/hebrew/5971.htm" title="5971: bā·‘am·mîm (Prep-b, Art:: N-mp) -- From amam; a people; specifically, a tribe; hence troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock.">with the nations;</a> <a href="/hebrew/669.htm" title="669: ’ep̄·ra·yim (N-proper-ms) -- Dual of masculine form of 'Ephraath; double fruit; Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory.">Ephraim</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: hā·yāh (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">is</a> <a href="/hebrew/1097.htm" title="1097: bə·lî (Adv) -- From balah; properly, failure, i.e. Nothing or destruction; usually without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2015.htm" title="2015: hă·p̄ū·ḵāh (V-Qal-QalPassPrtcpl-fs) -- To turn, overturn. A primitive root; to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert.">an unturned</a> <a href="/hebrew/5692.htm" title="5692: ‘u·ḡāh (N-fs) -- A disc or cake of bread. From uwg; an ash-cake.">cake.</a> </span><span class="reftext">9</span>Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/25-6.htm">Jeremiah 25:6-7</a></span><br />Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’ / ‘But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘so you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/17-33.htm">2 Kings 17:33-34</a></span><br />They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away. / To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/2-6.htm">Isaiah 2:6</a></span><br />For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/20-32.htm">Ezekiel 20:32</a></span><br />When you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of the lands, serving wood and stone,’ what you have in mind will never come to pass.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/106-35.htm">Psalm 106:35</a></span><br />but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/18-21.htm">1 Kings 18:21</a></span><br />Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people did not answer a word.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/1-5.htm">Zephaniah 1:5-6</a></span><br />those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom, / and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-14.htm">2 Corinthians 6:14-17</a></span><br />Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? / What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? / What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/4-4.htm">James 4:4</a></span><br />You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/3-15.htm">Revelation 3:15-16</a></span><br />I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other! / So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/6-24.htm">Matthew 6:24</a></span><br />No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_john/2-15.htm">1 John 2:15-17</a></span><br />Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. / For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world. / The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/12-2.htm">Romans 12:2</a></span><br />Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/1-10.htm">Galatians 1:10</a></span><br />Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-21.htm">1 Corinthians 10:21</a></span><br />You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.</p><p class="hdg">he hath.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/5-7.htm">Hosea 5:7,13</a></b></br> They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/9-3.htm">Hosea 9:3</a></b></br> They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean <i>things</i> in Assyria.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezra/9-1.htm">Ezra 9:1,12</a></b></br> Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, <i>doing</i> according to their abominations, <i>even</i> of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites… </p><p class="hdg">a cake.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/8-2.htm">Hosea 8:2-4</a></b></br> Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_kings/18-21.htm">1 Kings 18:21</a></b></br> And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD <i>be</i> God, follow him: but if Baal, <i>then</i> follow him. And the people answered him not a word.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/zephaniah/1-5.htm">Zephaniah 1:5</a></b></br> And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship <i>and</i> that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/4-12.htm">Cake</a> <a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">Ephraim</a> <a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">E'phraim</a> <a href="/ezekiel/8-10.htm">Flat</a> <a href="/hosea/7-4.htm">Mixed</a> <a href="/daniel/2-43.htm">Mixes</a> <a href="/judges/19-21.htm">Mixeth</a> <a href="/daniel/7-14.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/daniel/7-14.htm">Peoples</a> <a href="/hosea/5-13.htm">Turned</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/zechariah/5-7.htm">Cake</a> <a href="/hosea/7-11.htm">Ephraim</a> <a href="/hosea/7-11.htm">E'phraim</a> <a href="/luke/14-34.htm">Flat</a> <a href="/zechariah/1-8.htm">Mixed</a> <a href="/daniel/2-43.htm">Mixes</a> <a href="/judges/19-21.htm">Mixeth</a> <a href="/hosea/8-8.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/hosea/10-10.htm">Peoples</a> <a href="/hosea/7-10.htm">Turned</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 7</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">A reproof of manifold sins.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/7-11.htm">God's wrath against them for their hypocrisy.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hosea/7.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hosea/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/hosea/7.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Ephraim mixes with the nations;</b><br>Ephraim, representing the northern kingdom of Israel, is criticized for assimilating with surrounding pagan nations. This mixing signifies a departure from their covenant with God, leading to spiritual adultery. Historically, Israel was called to be a distinct people (<a href="/exodus/19-5.htm">Exodus 19:5-6</a>), set apart to worship Yahweh alone. By mingling with other nations, they adopted foreign customs and idolatry, violating the first commandment (<a href="/exodus/20-3.htm">Exodus 20:3</a>). This phrase echoes the warnings given in <a href="/deuteronomy/7-3.htm">Deuteronomy 7:3-4</a> against intermarriage with pagan nations, which would lead to turning away from God. The mixing symbolizes compromise and loss of identity, reflecting the broader theme of Israel's unfaithfulness throughout the prophetic books.<p><b>Ephraim is an unturned cake.</b><br>The metaphor of an "unturned cake" or "half-baked cake" illustrates incompleteness and lack of thoroughness in Ephraim's devotion to God. In ancient times, bread was baked on hot stones, requiring turning to cook evenly. An unturned cake is burnt on one side and raw on the other, symbolizing Ephraim's superficial religiosity and inconsistency. This imagery highlights their failure to fully commit to God, being partially devoted but ultimately ineffective and insincere. The unturned cake also suggests judgment, as it is unfit for consumption, paralleling the spiritual state of Israel. This metaphor can be connected to the New Testament call for wholehearted devotion (<a href="/revelation/3-15.htm">Revelation 3:15-16</a>), where lukewarm faith is rejected. The image serves as a warning against half-heartedness in one's relationship with God.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/e/ephraim.htm">Ephraim</a></b><br>Represents the northern kingdom of Israel, often used synonymously with Israel in the prophetic books. Ephraim was the largest and most influential tribe in the northern kingdom.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_nations.htm">The Nations</a></b><br>Refers to the surrounding pagan nations with whom Israel was forming alliances and adopting their practices, contrary to God's commands.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/h/hosea.htm">Hosea</a></b><br>A prophet in the 8th century BC, called by God to deliver messages of warning and hope to the northern kingdom of Israel.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_unturned_cake.htm">The Unturned Cake</a></b><br>A metaphor used by Hosea to describe Israel's incomplete and superficial commitment to God. Like a cake not turned, they were burnt on one side and raw on the other, symbolizing their inconsistency and lack of thorough devotion.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/a/avoiding_compromise.htm">Avoiding Compromise</a></b><br>Just as Ephraim mixed with the nations, Christians must be vigilant against compromising their faith by adopting worldly values and practices.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/w/wholehearted_devotion.htm">Wholehearted Devotion</a></b><br>The metaphor of the unturned cake challenges believers to examine their lives for areas of inconsistency and strive for complete devotion to God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_disobedience.htm">Consequences of Disobedience</a></b><br>Israel's alliances led to spiritual decline and eventual judgment. Believers are reminded that disobedience to God's commands can lead to spiritual and practical consequences.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_repentance.htm">The Importance of Repentance</a></b><br>Hosea's message calls for repentance. Christians are encouraged to turn back to God wholeheartedly when they recognize areas of compromise.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness.htm">God's Faithfulness</a></b><br>Despite Israel's unfaithfulness, God's call through Hosea is a reminder of His enduring desire for His people to return to Him, highlighting His faithfulness and mercy.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hosea_7.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hosea 7</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_for_ephraim's_cultural_mix.htm">Hosea 7:8 portrays Ephraim as a “cake not turned” and mixed with nations—what historical or archaeological support exists for this portrayal of religious and cultural assimilation?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_'reap_the_whirlwind'_mean.htm">What does 'sow the wind, reap the whirlwind' mean?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/hosea_8_7__hyperbole_or_real_devastation.htm">Hosea 8:7: Is the prophecy about reaping the whirlwind hyperbole, or did Israel actually face proportional devastation?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_ephraim_renounce_idols_in_hosea.htm">Why does Hosea 14:8 speak of Ephraim renouncing idols, yet later passages suggest the Northern Kingdom never fully returned from exile?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hosea/7.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(8) <span class= "bld">Cake not turned.--</span>Referring to the destructive effect of foreign influences. Ephraim was consumed by the unhallowed fire of Baal-worship, with all its passion and sensualism--a cake burnt on one side to a cinder, and on the other left in a condition utterly unfit for food. So the activity of foreign idolatries and foreign alliances, and the consequent unfaithfulness to Israel's God, are the nation's ruin.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/7.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 8.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.</span> The people of the northern kingdom had fallen away from Jehovah, and mixed themselves with the heathen nationalities. They resembled a cake which, through neglect of turning, was burnt on the one side and raw on the other. The best commentary on the first clause of this verse is found in <a href="/psalms/106-35.htm">Psalm 106:35, 36</a>, and 39; they "were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.... Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a-whoring with their own inventions." The second clause is well explained by Bishop Horsley as follows: "One thing on one side, another on the other; burnt to a coal at bottom, raw dough at the top. An apt image of a character that is all inconsistencies. Such were the ten tribes of the prophet's day; worshippers of Jehovah in profession, but adopting all the idolatries of the neighboring nations, in addition to their own semi-idolatry of the calves." Similarly, the Geneva Bible has, "Baked on one side and raw on the ether, he is neither through hot nor through cold, but partly a Jew and partly a Gentile." Jehovah had chosen Israel out of the nations of the earth, and given them a special constitution. The object of this segregation was that Israel should be a peculiar people and a holy nation. Thus distinguished, they were to dwell alone; but, ungrateful for this high distinction, and unmindful of their high destiny, they mingled with the nations, learned their heathenish ways, and worshipped their hateful idols. Thus they forfeited their theocratic pre-eminence. While it was their privilege as well u duty to follow the precepts of Jehovah, and serve him with undivided affection, they fell away from his service and adopted the idolatries and habits of the heathen; it was only a just retribution, therefore, when God gave them ever into the hand of those heathen peoples to waste their resources and leave them shorn of their strength. The second clause is the counterpart of this; exactly like the peoples subsequently brought from Assyria, and planted in the lands of the <span class="accented">dispossessed</span> Israelites, they worshipped the Lord, but served their own gods - they were neither true worshippers of Jehovah nor out-and-out followers of Baal. In religion they were <span class="accented">mongrels - inconsistent</span> and worthless hybrids; they were, in fact, what Calvin in rather homely phrase says of them," neither flesh nor <span class="accented">fish</span>." The comment of Kimchi is concise as it is clear: "The prophet means to say, He (Israel) mixes himself among the peoples; though God - blessed be he I - separated them from them, yet they mix them. selves among them and do according to their works." His explanation of the second clause is not so satisfactory when he says, "<span class="accented">As</span> a cake which is baked upon the coals; if they do not turn it, it is burnt below and not baked above, so is the counsel that is not right when they do not turn it from side to side (sense to sense) until they bring it upon their wheels (into action). So (thoughtless and hasty) is Ephraim in his determination to serve the calves and other gods without proving and choosing what is good." <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> Other explanations need only be referred to in order to be rejected, as <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> that of Rashi, who is followed by Grotius. He takes the verb in the future sense: "<span class="accented">Ephraim</span> in exile shall be mixed among the peoples." But it is obviously the present, not the future time, that is intended - the present sin, not its future punishment. There is <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> the explanation of Aben Ezra, followed by Eichhorn and Maurer, referring to the alliances or treaties which the northern kingdom formed with their neighbors to repel their enemies, and by which the resources of the land were consumed; while the second clause, . . . <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/hosea/7-8.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Ephraim</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶפְרַ֕יִם</span> <span class="translit">(’ep̄·ra·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_669.htm">Strong's 669: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ephraim -- a son of Joseph, also his descendants and their territory</span><br /><br /><span class="word">mixes</span><br /><span class="heb">יִתְבּוֹלָ֑ל</span> <span class="translit">(yiṯ·bō·w·lāl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1101.htm">Strong's 1101: </a> </span><span class="str2">To mingle, mix, confuse, confound</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with the nations;</span><br /><span class="heb">בָּעַמִּ֖ים</span> <span class="translit">(bā·‘am·mîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5971.htm">Strong's 5971: </a> </span><span class="str2">A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Ephraim</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶפְרַ֛יִם</span> <span class="translit">(’ep̄·ra·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_669.htm">Strong's 669: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ephraim -- a son of Joseph, also his descendants and their territory</span><br /><br /><span class="word">is</span><br /><span class="heb">הָיָ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(hā·yāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fall out, come to pass, become, be</span><br /><br /><span class="word">an unturned</span><br /><span class="heb">הֲפוּכָֽה׃</span> <span class="translit">(hă·p̄ū·ḵāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2015.htm">Strong's 2015: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn about, over, to change, overturn, return, pervert</span><br /><br /><span class="word">cake.</span><br /><span class="heb">עֻגָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(‘u·ḡāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5692.htm">Strong's 5692: </a> </span><span class="str2">A disc or cake of bread</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/7-8.htm">Hosea 7:8 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/7-8.htm">Hosea 7:8 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/7-8.htm">Hosea 7:8 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/7-8.htm">Hosea 7:8 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/hosea/7-8.htm">Hosea 7:8 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/7-8.htm">Hosea 7:8 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/7-8.htm">Hosea 7:8 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/7-8.htm">Hosea 7:8 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/7-8.htm">Hosea 7:8 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/hosea/7-8.htm">Hosea 7:8 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/hosea/7-8.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 7:8 Ephraim he mixes himself among the nations (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/7-7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 7:7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 7:7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/7-9.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 7:9"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 7:9" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>