As they called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to graven images.

Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind; all the day he multiplies lies and ruin. And they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

And now they sin more and more, and they have made themselves 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 who sacrifice kiss the calves.

Yet let no man strive with nor reprove another man. For your people are like those who strive with a priest.

So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, to walk in their own counsels.

Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into the ditch.

He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.