Hosea 7:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ “All of them are adulterers, as an oven heated by a baker, who ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough, until it is leavened.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ They are all [idolatrous] adulterers; their passion smolders like heat of an oven when the baker ceases to stir the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ 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.

Common English Bible

⁴ They all act like adulterers; they are like a heated oven, whose baker doesn’t need to stoke the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ They are all adulterers; like an oven heating up before baking, the city rested a little before the leaven was mixed in, until the whole was leavened.

Hosea 7:4 Cross References

Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is filled with adulterers; for the land mourns because of a curse. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, and I would weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for wayfaring men, and I would leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Hosea 4:10

“And they shall eat but not be satisfied, they shall whore but not increase, for they have stopped obeying יהוה.

Hosea 4:12

“My people ask from their Wood, and their Staff declares to them. For a spirit of whorings has led them astray, and they went whoring from under their Elohim.

Hosea 4:2

“Swearing, and lying, and murdering, and stealing, and committing adultery have increased. And bloodshed follows bloodshed.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the entire lump?

James 4:4

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with Elohim?Whoever therefore intends to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of Elohim.