Hosea 7:4-11

4They are 1all adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker, Who stops 2stoking the fire From the time the dough is kneaded until it is leavened.5On the 3day of our king, the officials 4became sick with the heat of wine; He stretched out his hand with 56scoffers,6For their hearts are like an 7oven As they approach their 8plotting; Their 9anger 10smolders all night, In the morning it burns like flaming fire.7All of them are hot like an oven, And they consume their 11rulers; All their kings have fallen. 12None of them calls on Me.

8Ephraim is himself 13thrown about with the 14nations; Ephraim has become a round loaf not turned over.915Strangers devour his strength, Yet he 16does not know it; Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him, Yet he does not know it.10Though the 17pride of Israel testifies against him, Yet 18they have not returned to the Lord their God, Nor have they sought Him, despite all this.11So 19Ephraim has become like a gullible dove, 20without 21sense; They call to 22Egypt, they go to 23Assyria.