Hosea 7:4
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They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
In other translations
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
Hebrew words
כֻּלָּםkulamall of themH3605מְנָאֲפִיםmena'afim[are] adulterersH5003כְּמוֹkemolikeH3644תַנּוּרtanuran ovenH8574בֹּעֵרָהbo'erahburningH1197מֵאֹפֶהme'opehfrom a bakerH644יִשְׁבּוֹתyishbot[who] he ceasesH7673מֵעִירme'irstirring upH5782מִלּוּשׁmilushfrom kneadingH3888בָּצֵקbatzek[the] doughH1217עַד־'ad-untilH5704חֻמְצָתוֹ׃chumtzatois leavened itH2556
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
- Jeremiah 5:7-87 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses. 8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.7 “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes. 8 They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
- James 4:4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
- Hosea 4:12My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
- Hosea 7:6-76 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. 7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.6 For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire. 7 All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.
- Hosea 4:2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
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