World English Bible
Hosea 7:4
“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.”
Verse in context — Hosea 7
They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
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.
About Hosea
God’s steadfast love for His unfaithful people, symbolized through Hosea’s marriage.
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