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Hosea 7:4

eThey are all adulterers;

they are like a heated oven

whose baker ceases to stir the fire,

from the kneading of the dough

until it is leavened.

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Hosea 7:4 — The New International Version (NIV)

They are all adulterers,

burning like an oven

whose fire the baker need not stir

from the kneading of the dough till it rises.

Hosea 7:4 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

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.

Hosea 7:4 — New Living Translation (NLT)

They are all adulterers,

always aflame with lust.

They are like an oven that is kept hot

while the baker is kneading the dough.

Hosea 7:4 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

“They are all adulterers.

Like an oven heated by a baker—

He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough,

Until it is leavened.

Hosea 7:4 — New Century Version (NCV)

But all of them are traitors.

They are like an oven heated by a baker.

While he mixes the dough,

he does not need to stir up the fire.

Hosea 7:4 — American Standard Version (ASV)

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.

Hosea 7:4 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

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.

Hosea 7:4 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

They all commit adultery. 

They are like a heated oven, 

an oven so hot that a baker doesn’t have to fan its flames 

when he makes bread. 

Hosea 7:4 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

All of them commit adultery;

they are like an oven heated by a baker

who stops stirring the fire

from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Hosea 7:4 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

They are all adulterers;

they are like a heated oven,

whose baker does not need to stir the fire,

from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Hosea 7:4 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

All of them commit adultery,

like a burning oven

whose baker has stopped from stirring the fire,

and from kneading the dough until it is leavened.

Hosea 7:4 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

But all of the people are unfaithful to the king.

Their anger against him burns

like the coals in an oven.

The baker does not even need to stir up the fire

until the dough is ready.”

Hosea 7:4 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

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.


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