Hosea 7:6

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For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

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3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

4They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

5On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

6For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

7They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.

8Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.

9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it.

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