Hosea 13:2
King James Version
“And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.”
Context
1When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
2And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
4Yet I the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for no saviour beside me.
5I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.