Hosea 7:3-7

Revised Standard Version

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^[a] 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.