Hosea 12:13-13:6 (Haftarah 11.13)

Then Jacob had to flee to the land of Aram;
There Israel served for a wife,
For a wife he had to guard [sheep].

But when the LORD
Brought Israel up from Egypt,
It was through a prophet;
Through a prophet they were guarded.

Ephraim gave bitter offense,
And his Lord cast his crimes upon him
And requited him for his mockery.

When Ephraim spoke piety,
He was exalted in Israel;
But he incurred guilt through Baal,
And so he died.

And now they go on sinning;
They have made them molten images,
Idols, by their skill, from their silver,
Wholly the work of craftsmen.
Yet for these they appoint men to sacrifice;^-b
They are wont to kiss calves!

Assuredly,
They shall be like morning clouds,
Like dew so early gone;
Like chaff whirled away from the threshing floor.
And like smoke from a lattice.

Only I the LORD have been your God
Ever since the land of Egypt;
You have never known a [true] God but Me,
You have never had a helper other than Me.

I looked after you in the desert,
In a thirsty land.

When they grazed, they were sated;
When they were sated, they grew haughty;
And so they forgot Me.