And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding: they were all the work of the craftsmen: they say one to another while they sacrifice a [a]man, Let them kiss the calves.

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the morning dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke that goeth out of the chimney.

Yet I am the Lord thy God [b]from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me: for there is no Savior beside me.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:2 The false prophets persuaded the idolaters to offer their children after the example of Abraham, and he showeth how they would exhort one another to the same, and to kiss and worship these calves which were their idols.
  2. Hosea 13:4 He calleth them to repentance, and reproveth their ingratitude.

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