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Read Full Chapter (Hosea 7) Hosea 7:5-7 KJV
"In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. 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. 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."
Hosea 7:5-7 in Context (Verses 2–10 KJV)
2
And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.*
3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4
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.**
5
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.*
6
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.
8
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.*
10
And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.