Hosea 7

¹When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they have committed falsehood, and the thief is come in to steal, the robber is without.

²And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been done before my face.

³They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.

⁴They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened.

⁵The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners.

⁶Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when he laid snares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the morning he himself was heated as a flaming fire.

⁷They were all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings have fallen: there is none amongst them that calleth unto me.

⁸Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not turned.

⁹Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knew it not: yea, grey hairs also are spread about upon him, and he is ignorant of it.

¹⁰And the pride of Israel shall be humbled before his face: and they have not returned to the Lord their God, nor have they sought him in all these.

¹¹And Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed, not having a heart: they called upon Egypt, they went to the Assyrians.