13 When Ephraim spoke,^[a] there was terror;
he was exalted in Israel,
        but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.
² 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.
³ 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.