They make the [a]king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

They are all adulterers, and as a very [b]oven heated by the baker, which ceaseth from raising up, and from kneading the dough until it be leavened.

This is the [c]day of our king: the princes have made him sick with flagons of wine: he stretcheth out his hand to scorners.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:3 They esteem their wicked king Jeroboam above God, and seek but how to flatter and please him.
  2. Hosea 7:4 He compareth the rage of the people to a burning oven which the baker heateth, still till his dough be leavened and raised.
  3. Hosea 7:5 They used all riot and excess in their feasts, and solemnities whereby their king was overcome with surfeit, and brought into diseases, and delighted in flatteries.

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