While they lie in wait;
1Their baker sleeps all night;
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
And have devoured their judges;
All their kings have fallen.
aNone among them calls upon Me.
But he does not know it;
Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him,
Yet he does not know it.
But bthey do not return to the Lord their God,
Nor seek Him for all this.
Futile Reliance on the Nations
I will bring them down like birds of the air;
I will chastise them
bAccording to what their congregation has heard.
Destruction to them,
Because they have transgressed against Me!
Though aI redeemed them,
Yet they have spoken lies against Me.
When they wailed upon their beds.
“They1 assemble together for grain and new bwine,
1They rebel against Me;
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Hosea 7:8
mixed . . . among the people—by leagues with idolaters, and the adoption of their idolatrous practices (Hosea 7:9, Hosea 7:11; Psalms 106:35).
Ephraim . . . cake not turned—a cake burnt on one side and unbaked on the other, and so uneatable; an image of the worthlessness of Ephraim. The Easterners bake their bread on the ground, covering it with embers (I Kings 19:6), and turning it every ten minutes, to bake it thoroughly without burning it.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Hosea 7:8:
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