'Nations' in the Bible

Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations.Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.

Israel is swallowed up!Now they are among the nationslike discarded pottery.

Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly as the nations do,for you have acted promiscuously, leaving your God.You have loved the wages of a prostituteon every grain-threshing floor.

Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a [true] prophet [to warn the nation];But the snare of a bird catcher was laid in all his paths.And there is only deep hostility in the house of his God (the land of Israel).

My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

I will discipline them at My discretion;nations will be gathered against themto put them in bondagefor their two crimes.