“For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right.
Hosea 7:4 - Y'all Version 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened. |
“For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right.
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned listening to YHWH.
My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
Y’all’s boasting is not excellent. Don’t y’all know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
Adulterous people, don’t y’all know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes themselves an enemy of God.