Hosea 7:4

“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.”

King James Version (KJV)

Other Translations for Hosea 7:4

They are al adulterers, as an ouen heated by the baker: who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, vntill it be leauened.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

They are all adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker Who ceases to stir up {the fire} From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

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 (1901)

They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.
- Basic English Bible

They all practise adultery, as an oven heated by the baker: he ceaseth from stirring [the fire] after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
- Darby Bible

They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.
- Webster's Bible

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

All of them [are] adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening.
- Youngs Literal Bible

They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth to stir from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

Bible Commentary for Hosea 7:4

Wesley's Notes for Hosea 7:4


7:4 As an oven - This vice is grown raging hot among them, as the fire in an oven, when the baker having called up those that make the bread, to prepare all things ready, doth by continued supply of fuel, heat the oven, 'till the heat need be raised no higher.


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