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Yahweh’s Judgment on Idolatrous Israel

13 When Ephraim spoke,[a] there was terror;
he was exalted in Israel,
        but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.
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.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:1 Hebrew “speaks”