Hosea 7:7-9

International Children’s Bible

⁷ So all these people are as hot as an oven.
    Like a fire they destroy their rulers.
Their kings fall one after another.
    And no one calls on me.

⁸ “Israel mixes with other nations.
    Israel is useless like a pancake cooked only on one side.
⁹ Foreign nations are using up Israel’s strength.
    And Israel doesn’t even know it.
Israel is weak and feeble, like an old man.
    And they don’t even know it.