1. When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel: but he trespassed through Baal, and he died.
2. And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, 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.
3. Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the lattice.
4. Yet I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou hast known no God but me; and there is no saviour besides me.
5. I knew thee in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
6. According to their pasture, they became full; they became full, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.
7. And I will be unto them as a lion; as a leopard I will lurk for them by the way;
8. I will meet them as a bear bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lioness: the beast of the field shall tear them.