King James Version (KJV)
Hosea 7:3
“They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.”
Verse in context — Hosea 7
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, [and] the troop of robbers spoileth without.
And they consider not in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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God’s steadfast love for His unfaithful people, symbolized through Hosea’s marriage.
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