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They please the king with their evil,
    and the princes with their dishonesty.
All of them are adulterers—
    they burn like an oven prepared by the baker,
who has ceased stoking it
    until the dough is leavened.

“On the king’s festival day
    the princes got drunk from wine,
        so the king[a] joined the mockers.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:5 Lit. so he