And they consider not in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: now their own inventions have beset them about: they are in my sight.

They make the [a]king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

They are all adulterers, and as a very [b]oven heated by the baker, which ceaseth from raising up, and from kneading the dough until it be leavened.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:3 They esteem their wicked king Jeroboam above God, and seek but how to flatter and please him.
  2. Hosea 7:4 He compareth the rage of the people to a burning oven which the baker heateth, still till his dough be leavened and raised.

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