¹² And the Lord said to me, Get up now, and go down quickly from this place; for the people you have taken out of Egypt have given themselves over to evil; they have quickly been turned from the way in which I gave them orders to go; they have made themselves a metal image.

¹⁷ But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.

⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, Go down quickly; for your people, whom you took out of the land of Egypt, are turned to evil ways;

⁸ Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave them, and have made themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and offerings, saying, This is your god, O Israel, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.

²⁹ For I am certain that after my death you will give yourselves up to sin, wandering from the way which I have given you; and evil will overtake you in the end, because you will do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of your hands.

¹⁰ But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

⁶ I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;

⁴ O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.

⁵⁷ Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

⁵ They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.

¹⁶ And I saw that you had done evil against the Lord, and had made for yourselves a metal image of a young ox: you had quickly been turned from the way in which the Lord had given you orders to go.

¹⁶ So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

¹¹ And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.

¹² And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.