Osée 7:7

7 Ils sont tous ardents comme un four, et ils dévorent leurs juges. Tous leurs rois tombent, et aucun d'eux ne crie à moi!

Osée 7:7 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 7:7

They are all hot as an oven
Eager upon their idolatry, or burning in their unclean desires after other men's wives; or rather raging and furious, hot with anger and wrath against their rulers and governors, breathing out slaughter and death unto them: and have devoured their judges;
that stood in the way of their lusts, reproved them for them, and restrained them from them; or were on the side of the king they conspired against, and were determined to depose and slay: all their kings have fallen;
either into sin, the sin of idolatry particularly, as all from Jeroboam the first did, down to Hoshea the last; or they fell into calamities, or by the sword of one another, as did most of them; so Zachariah by Shallum, Shallum by Menahem, Pekahiah by Pekah, and Pekah by Hoshea; see ( 2 Kings 15:1-38 ) . So the Targum,

``all their kings are slain:''
[there is] none among them that calleth unto me;
either among the kings, when their lives were in danger from conspirators; or none among the people, when their land was in distress, either by civil wars among themselves, or by a foreign enemy; such was their stupidity, and to such a height was irreligion come to among them!

Osée 7:7 In-Context

5 Au jour de notre roi, les chefs se rendent malades par l'ardeur du vin; le roi tend la main aux moqueurs.
6 Lorsqu'ils dressent des embûches, leur cœur est un four; toute la nuit dort leur boulanger; au matin c'est un feu qui jette des flammes.
7 Ils sont tous ardents comme un four, et ils dévorent leurs juges. Tous leurs rois tombent, et aucun d'eux ne crie à moi!
8 Éphraïm, lui, se mêle avec les peuples. Éphraïm est un gâteau qui n'a pas été retourné.
9 Les étrangers ont dévoré sa force, et il ne l'a point senti; sa tête s'est parsemée de cheveux blancs, et il ne s'en est pas aperçu.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.