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
2
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.
3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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.
5
On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.
6
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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