Hosea 7:3-7
Christian Standard Bible
Israel’s Corruption
4 All of them commit adultery;(C)
they are like an oven heated by a baker
who stops stirring the fire
from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
5 On the day of our king,
the princes are sick with the heat of wine(D)—
there is a conspiracy with traitors.[a]
6 For they—their hearts like an oven—
draw him into their oven.
Their anger smolders all night;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are as hot as an oven,(E)
and they consume their rulers.(F)
All their kings fall;
not one of them calls on me.[b]
Hosea 7:3-7
International Standard Version
3 They please the king with their evil,
and the princes with their dishonesty.
4 All of them are adulterers—
they burn like an oven prepared by the baker,
who has ceased stoking it
until the dough is leavened.
5 “On the king’s festival day
the princes got drunk from wine,
so the king[a] joined the mockers.
6 For they have stirred up themselves[b] like an oven
as they lie in ambush.
Their baker sleeps through the night;
in the morning, the oven[c] will be blazing like a fire.
7 They all burn like an oven;
they have consumed their judges;
all their kings have fallen—
not even one of them calls on me.
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