I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

They have ordained kings, but not through me: they have made princes, and I must not know of it. Of their silver and gold have they made them images, to bring themselves to destruction.

Their hearts are divided; from now on they are to be found guilty. God will tear down their altars, he will destroy their stone idols.

From now on they will say, "We have no king, because we did not fear the LORD and what would a king do for us?'

Yet I have been the Lord your God
Since [the time you became a nation in] the land of Egypt;
And you were not to know any god except Me,
For there is no savior besides Me.