Hosea 7:4-11

4They are all adulterers, always aflame with lust. They are like an oven that is kept hot while the baker is kneading the dough.

5On royal holidays, the princes get drunk with wine, carousing with those who mock them.

6Their hearts are like an oven blazing with intrigue. Their plot smolders through the night, and in the morning it breaks out like a raging fire.

7Burning like an oven, they consume their leaders. They kill their kings one after another, and no one cries to me for help.

8“The people of Israel mingle with godless foreigners, making themselves as worthless as a half-baked cake!

9Worshiping foreign gods has sapped their strength, but they don’t even know it. Their hair is gray, but they don’t realize they’re old and weak.

10Their arrogance testifies against them, yet they don’t return to the Lord their God or even try to find him.

11“The people of Israel have become like silly, witless doves, first calling to Egypt, then flying to Assyria for help.