You only have I known of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

And there is no creature that is not revealed in His presence, but all things are naked and laid bare to the eyes of Him to whom we must give answer.

I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would that you were cold or hot.

Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I have made known that which is sure.

Ephraim is oppressed and crushed in judgment, because he has willingly walked, keeping back from the commandments.

When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to King Jareb. Yet he could not heal you, nor did he cure you of your wound.

O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your goodness is like a morning cloud, and it goes away like the early dew.

Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, they are altars to him to sin.

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.

When Ephraim spoke, trembling, he was lifted up in Israel. But when he trespassed through Baal, he died.

But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

And he blessed them that day, saying, In you Israel shall bless, saying, May God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh! And thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

His glory is like a firstborn bull, and his horns like the horns of the oryx; together with them He shall thrust the peoples to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted against you, saying,

For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty- five years Ephraim shall be broken so that it shall not be a people.

And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.

Jehovah shall bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon your father's house, days that have not come since the days that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

Ephraim is joined to idols. Let him alone.

Their drink is rebellion. They are continually committing fornication. Her defenders dearly love disgrace.

And Jeroboam thought in his heart, Now the kingdom may return to the house of David:

Therefore the king took counsel, made two calves of gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!

Now this thing became a sin, for the people went before the one, even as far as Dan.

And Jeroboam instituted a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. Thus he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And at Bethel he installed the priests of the high places which he had made.

Moreover Jehovah shall raise up for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day. What? Even straightaway!

And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who has sinned and has made Israel sin.

Oholah committed adultery even though she was Mine; and she lusted for her lovers, the neighboring Assyrians,

Thus she committed her adultery with them, all of them choice men of Assyria; and with all for whom she lusted, with all their idols, she defiled herself.

Therefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, for whom she lusted.

Now although her sister Oholibah saw this, she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry, more than her sister's harlotry.

Then I saw that she was defiled; both the same way.

girded with waistbands around their waists, flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, in the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their birth.

And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their immorality; so she was defiled by them, and her soul was alienated from them.

Yet she multiplied her harlotry in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, when she had committed adultery in the land of Egypt.

Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your nipples because of your youthful breasts.