Hosea 7:7-9

Christian Standard Bible

⁷ All of them are as hot as an oven,^(A)
and they consume their rulers.^(B)
All their kings fall;
not one of them calls on me.^[a]
8 Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations.
Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.
⁹ Foreigners consume his strength,^(C)
but he does not notice.^(D)
Even his hair is streaked with gray,
but he does not notice.