Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned.

New American Standard Bible

Ephraim mixes himself with the nations;
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 has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations.
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.

Julia Smith Translation

Ephraim will mingle himself among my people; Ephraim was 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אפרים 
'Ephrayim 
אפרים 
'Ephrayim 
Usage: 180
Usage: 180

עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

is a cake
עגּה 
`uggah 
Usage: 7

References

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

Ephraim's Guilt

7 All of them are warm as an oven, And they have devoured their judges, All their kings have fallen, There is none calling unto Me among them. 8 Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned. 9 Devoured have strangers his power, And he hath not known, Also old age hath sprinkled itself on him, And he hath not known.



Cross References

Psalm 106:35

And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,

Hosea 5:13

And see doth Ephraim his sickness, and Judah his wound, And Ephraim goeth unto Asshur, And sendeth unto a warlike king, And he is not able to give healing to you, Nor doth he remove from you a scar.

1 Kings 18:21

and Elijah cometh nigh unto all the people, and saith, 'Till when are ye leaping on the two branches? -- if Jehovah is God, go after Him; and if Baal, go after him;' and the people have not answered him a word.

Ezra 9:1

And at the completion of these things, drawn nigh unto me have the heads, saying, 'The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not been separated from the peoples of the lands, as to their abominations, even the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite,

Ezra 9:12

and now, your daughters ye do not give to their sons, and their daughters ye do not take to your sons, and ye do not seek their peace, and their good -- unto the age, so that ye are strong, and have eaten the good of the land, and given possession to your sons unto the age.

Nehemiah 13:23-25

Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews who have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab.

Ezekiel 23:4-11

And their names are Aholah the elder, And Aholibah her sister, And they are Mine, and bear sons and daughters. As to their names -- Samaria is Aholah, And Jerusalem is Aholibah.

Hosea 5:7

Against Jehovah they dealt treacherously, For strange sons they have begotten, Now consume them doth a month with their portions.

Hosea 8:2-4

To Me they cry, 'My God, we -- Israel -- have known Thee.'

Hosea 9:3

They do not abide in the land of Jehovah, And turned back hath Ephraim to Egypt, And in Asshur an unclean thing they eat.

Zephaniah 1:5

And those bowing themselves On the roofs to the host of the heavens, And those bowing themselves, Swearing to Jehovah, and swearing by Malcham,

Malachi 2:11

Dealt treacherously hath Judah, And abomination hath been done in Israel, and in Jerusalem, For polluted hath Judah the holy thing of Jehovah, That He hath loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

Matthew 6:24

'None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

Revelation 3:15-16

I have known thy works, that neither cold art thou nor hot; I would thou wert cold or hot.

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