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Relentless Judgement on Israel

13 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling;
    he was exalted in Israel;
    but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.
And now they keep on sinning
    and make a cast image for themselves,
idols of silver made according to their understanding,
    all of them the work of artisans.
‘Sacrifice to these’, they say.[a]
    People are kissing calves!
Therefore they shall be like the morning mist
    or like the dew that goes away early,
like chaff that swirls from the threshing-floor
    or like smoke from a window.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:2 Cn Compare Gk: Heb To these they say sacrifices of people

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