Legacy Standard Bible

Hosea 13:1-3

Ephraim’s Idolatry

13aWhen Ephraim 1spoke, there was trembling.He blifted himself up in Israel,But through cBaal he became guilty and died.2And now they sin more and moreAnd make for themselves amolten images,Idols bmade from their silver according to their understanding,All of them the cwork of craftsmen.They are saying of them, “Let the 1men who sacrifice kiss the dcalves!”3Therefore they will be like the amorning cloudAnd like dew which 1soon disappears,Like bchaff which is blown away from the threshing floorAnd like csmoke from a 2chimney.