Hosea 7:3-7
English Standard Version
3 By their evil (A)they make (B)the king glad,
and the princes by their treachery.
4 (C)They are all adulterers;
they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
from the kneading of the dough
until it is leavened.
5 On the day of (D)our king, the princes
became sick with the heat of wine;
he stretched out his hand with mockers.
6 For with hearts like an oven (E)they approach their intrigue;
all night their anger smolders;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are hot as an oven,
and they devour their rulers.
All (F)their kings (G)have fallen,
and none of them calls upon me.
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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