In Context

1 When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they practise falsehood; and the thief entereth in, and the troop of robbers assaileth without.

2 And they say not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now do their own doings encompass them; they are before my face.

3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

4 They all practise adultery, as an oven heated by the baker: he ceaseth from stirring the fire after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

5 In the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine: he stretched out his hand to scorners.

Hosea 7:3 in Other Translations