Hosea 7:2-4

Good News Translation

² It never enters their heads that I will remember all this evil; but their sins surround them, and I cannot avoid seeing them.”

Conspiracy in the Palace

³ The Lord says, “People deceive the king and his officers by their evil plots. ⁴ They are all treacherous and disloyal. Their hatred smolders like the fire in an oven, which is not stirred by the baker until the dough is ready to bake.