Hosea 13:1 - 13:3

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.

He lifted himself up in Israel,

But through Baal he became guilty and died.

And now they sin more and more

And make for themselves molten images,

Idols made from their silver according to their understanding,

All of them the work of craftsmen.

They are saying of them, “Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!”

Therefore they will be like the morning cloud

And like dew which soon disappears,

Like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor

And like smoke from a chimney.