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They are all adulterers,
    burning like an oven.
    The baker does not need to stoke the fire
    from the time the dough is kneaded until it is leavened.
On the day[a] of our[b] king, the officials became sick from the intoxicating wine.
    He reaches out his hand to the blasphemers.
Indeed, their hearts are like an oven.
    They approach him, while plotting against him.
    Their anger sleeps all night,
    but in the morning it burns like a blazing fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:5 The birthday or the coronation day
  2. Hosea 7:5 The Targum reads their.