Hosea 7:7-9

New Century Version

⁷ All these people are as hot as an oven;
    they burn up their rulers.
All their kings fall,
    and no one calls on me.

⁸ “Israel mixes with other nations;
    he is like a pancake cooked only on one side.
⁹ Foreign nations have eaten up his strength,
    but he doesn’t know it.
Israel is weak and feeble, like an old man,
    but he doesn’t know it.