Hosea 7:8 Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. Ephraim had been "mingled," steeped, kneaded up into a cake, as it were, with the heathen, their ways, their idolatries, their vices. God would amend them, and they withholding themselves from His discipline, and not yielding themselves wholly to it, were spoiled. The fire of God's judgment, with which the people should have been amended, made but an outward impression upon them, and reached not within, nor to any thorough change, so that they were but the more hopelessly spoiled through the means which God used for their amendment. (E. B. Pusey, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.WEB: Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over. |
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