Hosea 7:3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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Context
1 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, the troop of robbers spoileth without.
2 And they consider not in their hearts I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4 They all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, ceaseth from raising after he has kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
5 In the day of our king the princes have made sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.