7 All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me. 8 Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake. 9 Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.
Hosea 7:7–9
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