World English Bible
Hosea 7:5
“On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.”
Verse in context — Hosea 7
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.
7
They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.
About Hosea
God’s steadfast love for His unfaithful people, symbolized through Hosea’s marriage.
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