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Hosea 7:7-9
New English Translation

7 All of them are blazing like an oven;
they devour their rulers.
All their kings fall,
and none of them call on me!

Israel Lacks Discernment and Refuses to Repent

8 Ephraim has mixed itself like flour[a] among the nations;
Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side.[b]
9 Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced,[c]
but he does not recognize it.
His head is filled with gray hair,
but he does not realize it.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:8 tn The words “like flour” are not in the Hebrew text but are implied by the imagery.
  2. Hosea 7:8 tn Heb “a cake of bread not turned.” This metaphor compares Ephraim to a ruined cake of bread that was not turned over in time to avoid being scorched and burned (see BDB 728 s.v. עֻגָה). Cf. NLT “as worthless as a half-baked cake.”
  3. Hosea 7:9 tn Heb “foreigners consume his strength”; cf. NRSV “devour (NIV “sap”) his strength.”
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