Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
All of them are adulterers they burn like an oven prepared by the baker, who has ceased stoking it until the dough is leavened.
New American Standard Bible
Like an oven heated by the baker
Who ceases to stir up the fire
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
they are like an oven heated by a baker
who stops stirring the fire
from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
A Conservative Version
They are all adulterers. They are as an oven heated by the baker. He ceases to stir [the fire], from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
They are all adulterers;
Like the heat of an oven
When the baker ceases to stir the fire, [their passion smolders]
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
All of them committing adultery, as an oven set on fire from baking; he will cease from raising from kneading the dough till its leavening.
King James 2000
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases to stir the fire after he has kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.
Lexham Expanded Bible
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.
Modern King James verseion
They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker; he stops stirring, from kneading the dough, while it is leavened.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
All these burn in adultery, as it were an oven that the baker heateth when he hath left kneading, till the dough be leavened.
NET Bible
They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking.
New Heart English 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.
The Emphasized Bible
They all, are adulterers, like an oven too hot for the baker, - who leaveth off stoking, after kneading the dough, till the whole be leavened.
Webster
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.
World English 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
All of them are adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening.
Themes
Adultery » Instances of » israelites
Arts and crafts » Names of various » Bakers
Bread » How prepared » Kneaded
Bread » How prepared » Baked in ovens
Bread » Kinds of » Leavened (made with yeast)
Furnace » Figurative » Of lust
Topics
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Ba`ar
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 7:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ephraim's Guilt
3 They please the king with their evil, and the princes with their dishonesty. 4 All of them are adulterers they burn like an oven prepared by the baker, who has ceased stoking it until the dough is leavened. 5 "On the king's festival day the princes got drunk from wine, so the king joined the mockers.
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh, that I had a lodging place for travelers in the desert, so that I could leave my people and go away from them. For all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.
Jeremiah 5:7-8
Why should I forgive you? Your sons have forsaken me, and you have sworn by those who aren't gods. When I gave them enough food to satisfy them, they committed adultery and marched to the prostitute's house.
Hosea 4:2
Swearing, lying, murder, theft, and adultery are rampant, and blood mingles with blood.
Hosea 4:12
My people seek counsel from their piece of wood, and their diviner's rod speaks to them. For a spirit of prostitution causes them to go astray; in their immorality they desert their God.
Hosea 7:6-7
For they have stirred up themselves like an oven as they lie in ambush. Their baker sleeps through the night; in the morning, the oven will be blazing like a fire.
James 4:4
You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.