Hosea 7:1-7 ▼

1 |When I was healing Israel, Ephraim's sin was uncovered, along with Samaria's wickedness. While they craft lying schemes, the thief invades, and the gang of thieves plunders outside.

2 It never occurs to them that I remember all their sin. Now their actions have caught up with them, and they have my attention.

3 They please the king with their evil, and the princes with their dishonesty.

4 All of them are adulterers— they burn like an oven prepared by the baker, who has ceased stoking it until the dough is leavened.

5 |On the king's festival day the princes got drunk from wine, so the king joined the mockers.

6 For they have stirred up themselves like an oven as they lie in ambush. Their baker sleeps through the night; in the morning, the oven will be blazing like a fire.

7 They all burn like an oven; they have consumed their judges; all their kings have fallen— not even one of them calls on me.