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Hosea 7:4

World English Bible

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.

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Hosea 7:4 in other translations

They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.

Hosea 7:4 · American Standard Version

Hosea 7:4 in context

  1. 2They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness.
    Now their own deeds have engulfed them.
    They are before my face.
  2. 3They make the king glad with their wickedness,
    and the princes with their lies.
  3. 4They are all adulterers.
    They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring,
    from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
  4. 5On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine.
    He joined his hand with mockers.
  5. 6For 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.