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The Conspirators

They delight the king with their wickedness
    and the princes with their treachery.
All of them are adulterers;
    they are like an oven all ablaze
whose fire the baker does not need to stoke
    from the kneading of the dough until it has risen.
On the festal day of their king,
    the princes become inflamed with wine
while the king extends his hand
    to those who mock him.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:5 Probably an allusion to the assassination of Elah (see 1 Ki 16:8-14).