Hosea 7:4-11

4All of them commit adultery; they are like an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

5On the day of our king, the princes are sick with the heat of wine  — there is a conspiracy with traitors.

6For they — their hearts like an oven — draw him into their oven. Their anger smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

7All of them are as hot as an oven, and they consume their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls on me.

8Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations. Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.

9Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not notice.

10Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the Lord their God, and for all this, they do not seek him.

11So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove; they call to Egypt, and they go to Assyria.