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

For they have made ready their heart like an oven while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night: in the morning it burneth as a flame of fire.

They are all hot as an oven, and have [b]devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. Hosea 7:7 By their occasion God hath deprived them of all good rulers.

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