Hosea 7:3 KJV
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Hosea 7:1–5 KJV Chapter 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, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
2
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.
3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4
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.
5
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.