Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Ephraim will mingle himself among my people; Ephraim was a cake not turned.
New American Standard Bible
Ephraim has become a cake not turned.
King James Version
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Holman Bible
Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.
International Standard Version
"Ephraim compromises with the nations; he's a half-baked cake.
A Conservative Version
Ephraim, he mixes himself among the peoples. Ephraim is a cake not turned.
American Standard Version
Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Amplified
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].
Bible in Basic English
Ephraim is mixed with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Darby Translation
Ephraim, he mixeth himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
King James 2000
Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Ephraim mixes himself with the nations; Ephraim is a bread cake not turned over.
Modern King James verseion
Ephraim mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Therefore must Ephraim be mixed among the Heathen. Ephraim is become like a cake that no man turneth:
NET Bible
Ephraim has mixed itself like flour among the nations; Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side.
New Heart English Bible
Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.
The Emphasized Bible
As for Ephraim! with the peoples, hath he been mingling himself, - Ephraim, is a cake not turned.
Webster
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
World English Bible
Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.
Youngs Literal Translation
Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned.
Interlinear
'Ephrayim
אפרים
'Ephrayim
Usage: 180
Balal
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 7:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ephraim's Guilt
7 They were all hot as a furnace, and they consumed their judges; all their kings fell: none among them calling to me. 8 Ephraim will mingle himself among my people; Ephraim was a cake not turned. 9 Strangers consumed his strength, and he knew not: also grayness of hair was sprinkled upon him, and he knew not
Cross References
Psalm 106:35
And they will mingle with the nations, and they will learn their works.
Hosea 5:13
And Ephraim will see his disease and Judah his wound, and Ephraim will go to Assur, and he will send to king Jareb: and he will not be able to heal for you, and he will not remove from you the wound.
1 Kings 18:21
And Elijah will draw near to all the people and say, How long halt ye upon two opinions? if Jehovah is God, go ye after him: and if Baal, go ye after him. And the people answered him not a word.
Ezra 9:1
And in these things being finished, the chiefs came near to me, saying, The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites were not separated from the people of the lands according to their abominations, to the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian and the imorite.
Ezra 9:12
And now ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, and ye shall not take their daughters to your sons, and ye shall not seek their peace and their good even forever, so that ye shall be strong and eat the good of the land, and cause to your sons to inherit even forever.
Nehemiah 13:23-25
Also in those days I saw Jews who caused to dwell women, Ashdodites, Ammonites, Moabites:
Ezekiel 23:4-11
And their names Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister; and they will be to me, and they will bring forth sons and daughters, and their names Shomeron-Aholah and Jerusalem Aholibah.
Hosea 5:7
Against Jehovah they acted faithlessly: for they begat strange sons: now shall the new moon consume them with their portions.
Hosea 8:2-4
Israel shall cry to me, My God, we knew thee.
Hosea 9:3
They shall not dwell in the land of Jehovah; and Ephraim turned back to Egypt, and in Assur they shall eat the unclean thing.
Zephaniah 1:5
And those worshiping upon the roofs to the army of the heavens, and worshiping, swearing to Jehovah, and swearing to Malcham;
Malachi 2:11
Judah dealt faithlessly, and an abomination was done in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah profaned the holy place of Jehovah which he loved, and married the daughter of a strange god.
Matthew 6:24
None can serve two lords: for either he will hate one and love the other; or hold firmly to one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Revelation 3:15-16
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor boiling: I would thou shouldest be cold or boiling.