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They please the king with their evil,
    and the princes with their dishonesty.
All of them are adulterers—
    they burn like an oven prepared by the baker,
who has ceased stoking it
    until the dough is leavened.

“On the king’s festival day
    the princes got drunk from wine,
        so the king[a] joined the mockers.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:5 Lit. so he

“They delight the king with their wickedness,
    the princes with their lies.(A)
They are all adulterers,(B)
    burning like an oven
whose fire the baker need not stir
    from the kneading of the dough till it rises.
On the day of the festival of our king
    the princes become inflamed with wine,(C)
    and he joins hands with the mockers.(D)

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