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The people of Ephraim make the king glad with their wickedness.
    They make their officials happy with their lies.
They are all adulterers,
    burning like an oven.
    The baker does not need to stoke the fire
    from the time the dough is kneaded until it is leavened.
On the day[a] of our[b] king, the officials became sick from the intoxicating wine.
    He reaches out his hand to the blasphemers.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:5 The birthday or the coronation day
  2. Hosea 7:5 The Targum reads their.