3. They please the king with their evil, the princes with their lies.
4. All of them commit adultery; they are like an oven heated by a bakerwho stops stirring the firefrom the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
5. On the day of our king,the princes are sick with the heat of wine —there is a conspiracy with traitors.
6. For they — their hearts like an oven —draw him into their oven.Their anger smolders all night;in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7. All of them are as hot as an oven, and they consume their rulers. All their kings fall;not one of them calls on Me.
8. Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations.Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.
9. Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray,but he does not notice.