As I called them, so they departed from My presence; they sacrificed to Baalam, and burnt incense to graven images.

But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day. He has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.

And now they have sinned increasingly, and have made for themselves a molten image of their silver, according to the fashion of idols, the work of artificers accomplished for them. they say, Sacrifice men, for the calves have come to an end.

that neither anyone may plead, nor any one reprove [another]; but My people are as a priest spoken against.

So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts; they will go on in their own ways.

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guides the blind, both will fall into a ditch."

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still; and the filthy, let him be filthy still; and the righteous, let him do righteousness still; and the holy, let him be sanctified still."