Hosea 7:4 — Compare Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

All of them [are] adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening.

English 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.

English Amplified

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.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

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.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

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.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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.

English EASY 2024

None of them serves me faithfully. They are always ready to do bad things, like an oven that has a hot fire inside it. When the baker is ready to bake his bread, he makes the fire even hotter.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

A baker presses dough to make bread. He puts the bread in the oven. He does not make the fire hotter while the bread is rising. But the people of Israel are not like that. They are always making their fire hotter.

English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles

They 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.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

They are all treacherous and disloyal. Their hatred smolders like the fire in an oven, which is not stirred by the baker until the dough is ready to bake.

English God's Word - GW 1995

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.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

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.

English KJV 1611

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.

English LSB

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.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker, who ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough until it is leavened.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

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.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

They are all kindled to wrath like a blazing oven, Whose fire the baker desists from stirring once the dough is kneaded until it has risen.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

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.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

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."

English 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.

English NKJ 1982

“They are all adulterers. Like an oven heated by a baker— He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough, Until it is leavened.

English NLT

They are all adulterers, always aflame with lust. They are like an oven that is kept hot even while the baker is still kneading the dough.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

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.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

They are all unfaithful to the king. Their anger is like an overheated oven. Their oven burns so hot that the baker could knead his bread at night until it rises in the morning and he still wouldn’t need to stoke the fire.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

They 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.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

They are all adulterers; as a baker's oven is constantly aflame—except after he kneads the dough and waits for it to rise again—so are these people constantly aflame with lust.

English Tyndale 1537

All these burn in advoutry, as it were an oven that the baker heateth, when he hath left kneading, till the dough be leavened.