They are all hot as an oven, and have [a]devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

Ephraim hath [b]mixed himself among the people. Ephraim is as a cake on the hearth not turned.

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, [c]gray hairs are here, and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:7 By their occasion God hath deprived them of all good rulers.
  2. Hosea 7:8 That is, he counterfeited the religion of the Gentiles, yet is but as a cake baked on the one side, and raw on the other, that is, neither thoroughly hot, nor thoroughly cold, but partly a Jew, and partly a Gentile.
  3. Hosea 7:9 Which are a token of his manifold afflictions.

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