11. “When Ephraim multiplied altars for making sin offerings, they became his altars for sinning.
12. Though I were to write out for him ten thousand things from My Torah, they are regarded as something strange.
13. Sacrifices are gifts for Me— should they sacrifice meat and then eat it? Adonai will not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sin— they will return to Egypt.
14. For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built temples, while Judah has multiplied fortified cities. So I will send fire upon its cities that will consume their citadels.”