3 I know Ephraim,
and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
Israel is defiled.
4 qThey are all adulterers;
they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
from the kneading of the dough
until it is leavened.
2 there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
12 My people inquire of a piece of wood,
and their walking staff gives them oracles.
For a gspirit of whoredom has led them astray,
and they have left their God to play the whore.
14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore,
nor your brides when they commit adultery;
for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes
and sacrifice with cult prostitutes,
and a people iwithout understanding shall come to ruin.
10 Like grapes in the wilderness,
I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree
in its first season,
I saw your fathers.
yBut they came to Baal-peor
and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
and became detestable like the thing they loved.
