Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Hosea 7
³ They make a king glad with their wickedness, And princes with their lies.
⁴ "They are all adulterers. Like an oven heated by a baker-- He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough, Until it is leavened.
⁵ In the day of our king Princes have made him sick, inflamed with wine; He stretched out his hand with scoffers.
⁶ They prepare their heart like an oven, While they lie in wait; Their baker sleeps all night; In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
⁷ They are all hot, like an oven, And have devoured their judges; All their kings have fallen. None among them calls upon Me.
⁸ "Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake unturned.
⁹ Aliens have devoured his strength, But he does not know it; Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him, Yet he does not know it.
¹⁰ And the pride of Israel testifies to his face, But they do not return to the Lord their God, Nor seek Him for all this.
¹¹ "Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without sense-- They call to Egypt, They go to Assyria.
¹² Wherever they go, I will spread My net on them; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will chastise them According to what their congregation has heard.
¹³ "Woe to them, for they have fled from Me! Destruction to them, Because they have transgressed against Me! Though I redeemed them, Yet they have spoken lies against Me.