3They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.
4They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened.
5The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners.
Hosea 7 continues the Lord's indictment against Israel, shifting from the metaphor of an unfaithful wife to a series of vivid images: a heated oven, a half-baked cake, a senseless dove. The chapter exposes the nation's internal corruption and political instability during the fina
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