Hosea 7:8 New English Translation

⁸Ephraim has mixed itself like flour^[a] among the nations;
Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side.^[b]

Hosea 7:8 tn The words “like flour” are not in the Hebrew text but are implied by the imagery.
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.”

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