Hosea 7:3-12 - Israel's Corruption

³ By their wickedness, they gladden a king, and, by their flatteries, - rulers. ⁴ They all, are adulterers, like an oven too hot for the baker, - who leaveth off stoking, after kneading the dough, till the whole be leavened. ⁵ In the day of our king, the rulers, have made themselves ill, with the heat of wine, - he hath extended his hand with scoffers. ⁶ For they have made ready, like an oven, their heart, by their lying in wait, - all the night, their baker sleepeth, in the morning, he, kindleth up as it were a blazing fire. ⁷ They all, become hot as an oven, and devour their judges, - all their kings, have fallen, there hath been none among them crying unto me.

⁸ As for Ephraim! with the peoples, hath he been mingling himself, - Ephraim, is a cake not turned. ⁹ Foreigners have, eaten up, his strength, and, he, knoweth it not, - even gray hairs, are sprinkled upon him, and, he, knoweth it not. ¹⁰ Therefore doth the Excellency of Israel, answer, to his face; yet have they not returned unto Yahweh their God, nor have they sought him, in spite of all this!

¹¹ So then, Ephraim, hath become, like a simple dove, having no understanding, on Egypt, have they called, to Assyria, have they gone, ¹² Whithersoever they go, I will spread over them my net, like a bird of the heavens, will I bring them down, I will chastise them, by the time the report can reach the flock of them.