Hosea 7 in the early church

But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake.

Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.

As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together.

Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.

Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.