For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I did not approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.

Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they did not know that I healed them.