Hosea 7:6-8

New Living Translation

⁶ Their hearts are like an oven
    blazing with intrigue.
Their plot smolders^[a] through the night,
    and in the morning it breaks out like a raging fire.
⁷ Burning like an oven,
    they consume their leaders.
They kill their kings one after another,
    and no one cries to me for help.

⁸ “The people of Israel mingle with godless foreigners,
    making themselves as worthless as a half-baked cake!