HOSEA 7:3-16
7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their 
lies.
7:4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from 
raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
7:5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; 
he stretched out his hand with scorners.
7:6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: 
their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
7:7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their 
kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
7:8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not 
turned.
7:9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray 
hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
7:10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to 
the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
7:11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they 
go to Assyria.
7:12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down 
as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath 
heard.
7:13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because 
they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have 
spoken lies against me.
7:14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon 
their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against 
me.
7:15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine 
mischief against me.
7:16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: 
their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall 
be their derision in the land of Egypt.