Hosea 6:7-7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ But at^[a] Adam they transgressed the covenant;
    there they dealt faithlessly with me.
⁸ Gilead is a city of evildoers,
    tracked with blood.
⁹ As robbers lie in wait^[b] for a man,
    so the priests are banded together;^[c]
they murder on the way to Shechem,
    yea, they commit villainy.
¹⁰ In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
    E′phraim’s harlotry is there, Israel is defiled.

¹¹ For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed.

When I would restore the fortunes of my people,
7 ¹ when I would heal Israel,
the corruption of E′phraim is revealed,
    and the wicked deeds of Samar′ia;
for they deal falsely,
    the thief breaks in,
    and the bandits raid without.
² But they do not consider
    that I remember all their evil works.
Now their deeds encompass them,
    they are before my face.
³ By their wickedness they make the king glad,
    and the princes by their treachery.
⁴ They are all adulterers;
    they are like a heated oven,
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
    from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
⁵ On the day of our king the princes
    became sick with the heat of wine;
    he stretched out his hand with mockers.
⁶ For like an oven their hearts burn^[d] with intrigue;
    all night their anger smolders;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
⁷ All of them are hot as an oven,
    and they devour their rulers.
All their kings have fallen;
    and none of them calls upon me.