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Yahweh’s Judgment on Idolatrous Israel

13 When Ephraim spoke,[a] there was terror;
he was exalted in Israel,
        but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.
And now they sin again,
    and they make for themselves a molten idol,
idols from their silver metal according to their understanding,
    all of them the work of skilled craftsmen.
To these they say, “Sacrifice!”
    People are kissing bull calves.
Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud,
    and like the dew of early morning going away,
like chaff swirling from the threshing floor,
    or like smoke from a window.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:1 Hebrew “speaks”