Hosea 7:1-7 ▼

1 when I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim and the crimes of Samaria will be exposed. For they practice fraud; a thief breaks in; a raiding party pillages outside.

2 But they never consider that I remember all their evil. Now their actions are all around them; they are right in front of my face.

3 They please the king with their evil, the princes with their lies.

4 All of them commit adultery; they are like an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

5 On the day of our king, the princes are sick with the heat of wine — there is a conspiracy with traitors.

6 For they—their hearts like an oven — draw him into their oven. Their anger smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

7 All of them are as hot as an oven, and they consume their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls on me.