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The Book of Hosea, Chapter 7, Verse 4

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They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
King James Version
They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
American Standard Version
They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir [the fire], from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.
New English Translation
They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking.
World English Bible
They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
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In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
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They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: [there is] none among them that calleth unto me.
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Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
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Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
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And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
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Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
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Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
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And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me.