1 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but he became guilty through Baal, and died.
2 But now, they sin more and more. They made themselves molten images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say about them: “Let those who sacrifice kiss the calves.”
3 Therefore they will be like morning clouds, like dew passing away early, like chaff blown from the threshing-floor, or like smoke from a chimney.
4 “Yet I have been Adonai your God since the land of Egypt. You should know no God but Me, and there is no Savior apart from Me.