Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, “Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!”
Yet let no one contend, and let none accuse, for with you is my contention, O priest.
Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.”
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.
The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.
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