¹ When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal and died.

¹⁴ And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me.

²⁴ Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: "I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;