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When Ephraim spoke, men trembled; he was exalted in Israel. But he became guilty of Baal worship and died.

Now they sin more and more; they make idols for themselves from their silver, cleverly fashioned images, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of these people, "They offer human sacrifice and kiss ^(F37) the calf-idols."

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears, like chaff swirling from a threshing floor, like smoke escaping through a window.