¹⁷ Joined to idols `is' Ephraim, let him alone.

¹² And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

⁴ Only, let no one strive, nor reprove a man, And thy people `are' as those striving with a priest.

² And now do they add to sin, And make to them a molten image of their silver, By their own understanding -- idols, A work of artizans -- all of it, Of them they say, who `are' sacrificers among men, `The calves let them kiss.'

¹⁴ let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

² They have called to them rightly, They have gone from before them, To lords they do sacrifice, And to graven images they make perfume.

¹ Ephraim is enjoying wind, And is pursuing an east wind, All the day lying and spoiling he multiplieth, And a covenant with Asshur they make, And oil to Egypt is carried.

¹¹ he who is unrighteous -- let him be unrighteous still, and he who is filthy -- let him be filthy still, and he who is righteous -- let him be declared righteous still, and he who is sanctified -- let him be sanctified still: