¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be.

¹² So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.

⁴ Let no man go to law or make protests, for your people are like those who go to law with a priest.

² And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.

¹⁴ Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

² When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.

¹ The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...

¹¹ Let the evil man go on in his evil: and let the unclean be still unclean: and let the upright go on in his righteousness: and let the holy be holy still.