Hosea 7:4
Good News Translation
They are all treacherous and disloyal. Their hatred smolders like the fire in an oven, which is not stirred by the baker until the dough is ready to bake.

New Revised Standard Version
They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven, whose baker does not need to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone burns with desire--they are like coals in an oven, ready to burst into flames.

New American Bible
They are all adulterers, like a blazing oven, Which the baker quits stoking, after the dough’s kneading until its rising.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They 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.

are all.

Hosea 4:2,12 Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood. . . .

Jeremiah 5:7,8 How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot's house. . . .

Jeremiah 9:2 Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.

James 4:4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world becometh an enemy of God.

as.

Hosea 7:6,7 Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when he laid snares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the morning he himself was heated as a flaming fire. . . .

who ceaseth, etc.

Context
Ephraim's Iniquity
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.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?

Jeremiah 9:2
Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.

Jeremiah 23:10
Because the land is full of adulterers, because the land hath mourned by reason of cursing, the fields of the desert are dried up: and their course is become evil, and their strength unlike.

Hosea 4:2
Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.

Hosea 4:10
And they shall eat and shall not be filled: they have committed fornication, and have not ceased: because they have forsaken the Lord in not observing the law.

Hosea 7:3
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