^2 (A)The more they were called,
    the more they went away;
^(B)they kept sacrificing to the Baals
    and burning offerings to idols.

¹³ And ^(A)I will punish her for ^(B)the feast days of the Baals
    when she burned offerings to them
and ^(C)adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
    and went after her lovers
    and forgot me, declares the Lord.

^15 (A)But my people have forgotten me;
    they make offerings to ^(B)false gods;
they made them stumble in their ways,
    ^(C)in the ancient roads,
and to walk into side roads,
    ^(D)not the highway,

⁷     both your iniquities ^(A)and your fathers' iniquities together,
says the Lord;
^(B)because they made offerings on the mountains
    ^(C)and insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their lap
    payment for their former deeds.”^[a]

13 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling;
    ^(A)he was exalted in Israel,
    but he incurred guilt ^(B)through Baal and died.
² And now they sin more and more,
    and ^(C)make for themselves metal images,
idols skillfully made of their silver,
    ^(D)all of them the work of craftsmen.
It is said of them,
    “Those who offer human sacrifice ^(E)kiss calves!”

⁷ My people are bent ^(A)on turning away from me,
    and though ^(B)they call out to the Most High,
    he shall not raise them up at all.