A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler's snare is on all of his paths, And hostility in the house of his God.
"As for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways ..." Hosea tells us here exactly who is the prophet of  Hosea 9:7, he is the false prophet, the one who is a fowler's snare to the people, who are gulled into believing his senseless lies.