3 By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the officials by their treacheries.
4 All of them commit adultery, like a burning oven whose baker has stopped from stirring the fire, and from kneading the dough until it is leavened.
5 On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.
6 Because they are kindled like an oven, their heart burns within them; all night their anger smolders, in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen; there is none who calls to me amongst them.
8 Ephraim mixes himself with the nations; Ephraim is a bread cake not turned over.
9 Foreigners devour his strength, and he does not know it; mold is also sprinkled upon him, and he does not know it.