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Hosea 7:4-6
New Catholic Bible
Hosea 7:4-6
New Catholic Bible
4 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.
5 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]
6 For they are heated like ovens
while their heart burns within them.
All through the night their passion slumbers;
in the morning it blazes forth like a flaming fire.
Footnotes
- Hosea 7:5 Probably an allusion to the assassination of Elah (see 1 Ki 16:8-14).