Hosea 7:3-7

Modern English Version

³ They make the king glad with their wickedness,
    and the princes with their lies.
⁴ They are all adulterers,
    like an oven heated by a baker,
who ceases stirring the fire
    after kneading the dough until it is leavened.
⁵ On the day of our king the princes made him sick
    from the heat of wine.
    He stretched out his hand with scorners.
⁶ For they are kindled^[a] like an oven.
    Their heart burns within them;^[b]
their anger smolders^[c] all night;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
⁷ They are all hot as an oven,
    and they devour their judges.
All their kings have fallen,
    and none of them calls to Me.