Hosea 7:3-5

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Israel’s Corruption

³They please the king with their evil,^(A)
the princes with their lies.^(B)

⁴All of them commit adultery;^(C)
they are like an oven heated by a baker
who stops stirring the fire
from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
⁵On the day of our king,
the princes are sick with the heat of wine^(D)—
there is a conspiracy with traitors.^[a]

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Footnotes

7:5 Lit wine—he stretches out his hand to scorners; Hb obscure

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