¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

¹² So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

⁴ Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: 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, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

¹⁴ Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

² As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

¹ Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

¹¹ He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.