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.
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker - "all of them" (so the Hebrew), king, princes, and people, are adulterers.
As an oven heated by the baker. The Hebrew is literally, 'burning from the baker.' This implies that the fire continued to burn of itself, even after the baker ceased to feed it with fuel. So their lusts were ever on fire, even in the short respite Satan gives until his leaven has worked.
Who ceaseth from raising - rather, from HEATING it х mee`iyr (H5782), the Qal infinitive, from 'iyr, to be hot, or to heat], (Gesenius). So the Septuagint Their adulterous and idolatrous lust is inflamed as the oven of a baker, who has it at such a heat that he ceaseth from heating it only from the time that he hath kneaded the dough until it be leavened: he only requires to omit feeding it during the short period of the fermentation of the bread. Compare 2 Peter 2:14, "that cannot cease from sin" (Henderson).