1. When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel: but when he offended in Baal, he died.
2. And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
3. Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
4. Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt; and thou shalt know no god but me, and beside me there is no saviour.