That aI remember all their wickedness;
Now their own deeds have surrounded them;
They are before My face.
Like an oven heated by a baker—
He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough,
Until it is leavened.
Princes have made him sick,1 inflamed with awine;
He stretched out his hand with scoffers.
While they lie in wait;
1Their baker sleeps all night;
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
And have devoured their judges;
All their kings have fallen.
aNone among them calls upon Me.
But he does not know it;
Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him,
Yet he does not know it.
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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® Bible
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.
Contemporary English Version
Everyone burns with desire-- they are like coals in an oven, ready to burst into flames.
Darby English Version
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.
Good News Bible
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.
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.
New American Standard Bible
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.
New International Version
They are all adulterers,
burning like an oven
whose fire the baker need not stir
from the kneading of the dough till it rises.
New King James Version
" They are all adulterers.
Like an oven heated by a baker—
He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough,
Until it is leavened.
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
They all prove themselves adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker Who ceases to stir up the fire From the kneading of the dough until it becomes leavened.
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.
Young's 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.
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