Hosea 7:7

7 All of them are hot as an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none of them calls on me.

Hosea 7:7 in Other Translations

7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

7 All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me.

7 Burning like an oven, they consume their leaders. They kill their kings one after another, and no one cries to me for help.

7 Murderous and volcanic, they incinerate their rulers. Their kings fall one by one, and no one pays any attention to me.

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.

Hosea 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!

Hosea 7:7 In-Context

5 On the day of the festival of our king the princes become inflamed with wine, and he joins hands with the mockers.

6 Their hearts are like an oven; they approach him with intrigue. Their passion smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

7 All of them are hot as an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none of them calls on me.

8 “Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is a flat loaf not turned over.

9 Foreigners sap his strength, but he does not realize it. His hair is sprinkled with gray, but he does not notice.

Cross References

• 1. Hosea 13:10
• 2. ver 16; S Psalms 14:4; S Isaiah 9:13; Zephaniah 1:6