Ephraim’s Idolatry
aWhen Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.
He blifted himself up in Israel,
But through cBaal he became guilty and died.
2 And now they sin more and more
And make for themselves amolten images,
Idols bmade from their silver according to their understanding,
All of them the cwork of craftsmen.
They are saying of them, “Let the men who sacrifice kiss the dcalves!”
3 Therefore they will be like the amorning cloud
And like dew which soon disappears,
Like bchaff which is blown away from the threshing floor
And like csmoke from a chimney.
4 Yet I have been aYahweh your God
Since the land of Egypt;
And you were not to know bany god except Me,
And there is no savior cbesides Me.