1 When Ephraim spoke, there was terror; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.
2 And now they sin again, and they make for themselves a molten idol, idols from their silver metal according to their understanding, all of them the work of skilled craftsmen. To these they say, “Sacrifice!” People are kissing bull calves.
3 Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud, and like the dew of early morning going away, like chaff swirling from the threshing floor, or like smoke from a window.
4 I am Yahweh your God since the land of Egypt; you know no god except me, and no one saves besides me.
5 I fed you in the desert, in the land of drought.
6 When I fed them, they were satisfied; they were satisfied and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.