Hosea 7:4-11

4“They are all adulterers. Like an oven heated by a baker— He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough, Until it is leavened.

5In the day of our king Princes have made him sick, inflamed with wine; He stretched out his hand with scoffers.

6They prepare their heart like an oven, While they lie in wait; Their baker sleeps all night; In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

7They are all hot, like an oven, And have devoured their judges; All their kings have fallen. None among them calls upon Me.

8“Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake unturned.

9Aliens have devoured his strength, But he does not know it; Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him, Yet he does not know it.

10And the pride of Israel testifies to his face, But they do not return to the Lord their God, Nor seek Him for all this.

11“Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without sense— They call to Egypt, They go to Assyria.