13 ^(A)When Ephraim ^[a]spoke, there was trembling.
He ^(B)lifted himself up in Israel,
But through ^(C)Baal he became guilty and died.
² And now they sin more and more
And make for themselves ^(D)molten images,
Idols ^(E)made from their silver according to their understanding,
All of them the ^(F)work of craftsmen.
They are saying of them, “Let the ^[b]men who sacrifice kiss the ^(G)calves!”
³ Therefore they will be like the ^(H)morning cloud
And like dew which ^[c]soon disappears,
Like ^(I)chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor
And like ^(J)smoke from a ^[d]chimney.