Hosea 7:3-4

Hosea 7:3-4 King James Version (KJV)
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4 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 7:3-4 Expanded Bible (EXB)
Israel’s Evil Kings

3 “They make the king happy with their wickedness;
   their •rulers [princes] are glad with their lies.
4 But all of them are •traitors [L adulterers].
   They are like an oven heated by a baker.
•While he mixes the dough [L From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened],
   he does not need to stir up the fire.

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3 When evil is in charge and controls things if we are not seeking the Lord we will follow the example to make them happy with us and thus do evil ourselves because it alright by them that are placed in charge but the reality is that those in charge do not truly decide what is right and wrong but God does it sometimes those that are in charge that decide to allow what is evil to happen but it does make it right, evil will love company and those kings of that time did and those evil leaders out there today still do the same.

4 Yeast causes bread to rise bread often times symbolizes sin, their sins get the better of them and cause them to rise up but the direction they rise up is not with God but is against Him because with God we are lowed and He rises up and carries us the way He wants us.