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They make the king glad with their wickedness,
    and the princes with their lies.
They are all adulterers.
    They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring,
    from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine.
    He joined his hand with mockers.
For they have prepared their heart like an oven,
    while they lie in wait.
    Their baker sleeps all the night.
    In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
They are all hot as an oven,
    and devour their judges.
All their kings have fallen.
    There is no one among them who calls to me.

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They please the king with their evil,
    and the princes with their dishonesty.
All of them are adulterers—
    they burn like an oven prepared by the baker,
who has ceased stoking it
    until the dough is leavened.

“On the king’s festival day
    the princes got drunk from wine,
        so the king[a] joined the mockers.
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.
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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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:5 Lit. so he
  2. Hosea 7:6 Lit. up their heart
  3. Hosea 7:6 Lit. morning, it