Hosea 7:4-11

4All of them are practicing adultery, as an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring or kneading dough when it is leavened.

5On the day of our king, princes become sick from wine. His hand drags scorners along.

6For their hearts are like an oven, as they wait in ambush. All night their anger smolders. In the morning it burns like a blazing fire.

7All of them are hot like an oven, and they devour their rulers. All of their kings have fallen. None among them calls on Me.

8Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples. Ephraim has become a pancake that never gets turned over.

9Strangers devoured his strength— yet he does not know it. Gray hairs have spread on him— and he does not know it.

10Though the Pride of Israel has answered him to his face, yet they did not return to Adonai their God, nor seek Him about all this.

11Ephraim is like a senseless silly dove, they call to Egypt; they go to Assyria.