Hosea 7:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
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“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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“All of them <FI>are<Fi> adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Hosea 7:4 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 5:7“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.
- Jeremiah 9:1Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
- Jeremiah 9:2If 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.
- Hosea 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
- Hosea 4:12My 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 7:6For 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.
- James 4:4You 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.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).