Now they sin more and more;
    they make idols for themselves from their silver,
cleverly fashioned images,
    all of them the work of craftsmen.
It is said of these people,
    ‘They offer human sacrifices!
    They kiss[a] calf-idols!’
Therefore they will be like the morning mist,
    like the early dew that disappears,
    like chaff swirling from a threshing-floor,
    like smoke escaping through a window.

‘But I have been the Lord your God
    ever since you came out of Egypt.
You shall acknowledge no God but me,
    no Saviour except me.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:2 Or ‘Men who sacrifice / kiss