King James Version (KJV)
Hosea 7:4
“They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.”
Verse in context — Hosea 7
2
And they consider not in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4
They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
5
In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
6
For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
About Hosea
God’s steadfast love for His unfaithful people, symbolized through Hosea’s marriage.
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