For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley:

They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made for themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

For lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of artificers: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.