¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.

¹² So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.

⁴ Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

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.

¹⁴ Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.

² The more `the prophets' called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

¹ Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

¹¹ He that is unrighteous, let him do unrighteousness still: and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him do righteousness still: and he that is holy, let him be made holy still.