¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

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

⁴ "Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.

² Now they sin more and more, And have made themselves molten images of their silver, Even idols according to their own understanding, All of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, "They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves."

¹⁴ Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."

² They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, And burned incense to engraved images.

¹ Ephraim feeds on wind, And chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, And oil is carried into Egypt.

¹¹ He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still."