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.

but they do not realize
    that I remember(A) all their evil deeds.(B)
Their sins engulf them;(C)
    they are always before me.

“They delight the king with their wickedness,
    the princes with their lies.(D)
They are all adulterers,(E)
    burning like an oven
whose fire the baker need not stir
    from the kneading of the dough till it rises.

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