Hosea 7:7-9

New Catholic Bible

⁷ All of them are as hot as ovens,
    and they consume their rulers.
All their kings have fallen;
    not one of them calls out to me.

⁸ Ephraim mixes with the nations;
    Ephraim is a half-baked cake.^[a]
9 Foreigners have sapped his strength,
    but he is unaware of it.
His hair is beginning to turn gray,
    but he does not realize it.