Hosea 12:12-Hosea 13:3 - Further Indictment Of Jacob's Heirs
12 Jacob fled [to] the open field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he watched over [sheep]. 13 And by a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was watched over.
14 Ephraim has caused bitter provocation, and his Lord will {hold him responsible for his crimes} and pay back to him his insults.
1 When Ephraim spoke, [there was] terror; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.
2 And now they sin again, and they make for themselves a molten idol, idols from their silver metal according to their understanding, all of them the work of skilled craftsmen. To these they say, "Sacrifice!" People are kissing bull calves. 3 Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud, and like [the] dew of early morning going [away], like chaff swirling from [the] threshing floor, or like smoke from a window.