diff --git a/packages/prism-react-renderer/src/components/highlight.ts b/packages/prism-react-renderer/src/components/highlight.ts
index 3c6d5d5..3d23ddc 100644
--- a/packages/prism-react-renderer/src/components/highlight.ts
+++ b/packages/prism-react-renderer/src/components/highlight.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import { InternalHighlightProps } from "../types"
-import { useThemeDictionary } from "./useThemeDictionary"
 import { useGetLineProps } from "./useGetLineProps"
 import { useGetTokenProps } from "./useGetTokenProps"
 import { useTokenize } from "./useTokenize"
+import themeToDict from "../utils/themeToDict"
 
 export const Highlight = ({
   children,
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ export const Highlight = ({
   prism,
 }: InternalHighlightProps) => {
   const language = _language.toLowerCase()
-  const themeDictionary = useThemeDictionary(language, theme)
+  const themeDictionary = themeToDict(theme, language)
   const getLineProps = useGetLineProps(themeDictionary)
   const getTokenProps = useGetTokenProps(themeDictionary)
   const grammar = prism.languages[language]
diff --git a/packages/prism-react-renderer/src/components/useThemeDictionary.ts b/packages/prism-react-renderer/src/components/useThemeDictionary.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index fd6746f..0000000
--- a/packages/prism-react-renderer/src/components/useThemeDictionary.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-import { Language, PrismTheme } from "../types"
-import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react"
-import themeToDict, { ThemeDict } from "../utils/themeToDict"
-
-export const useThemeDictionary = (language: Language, theme: PrismTheme) => {
-  const [themeDictionary, setThemeDictionary] = useState<ThemeDict>(
-    themeToDict(theme, language)
-  )
-  const previousTheme = useRef<PrismTheme>()
-  const previousLanguage = useRef<Language>()
-
-  useEffect(() => {
-    if (
-      theme !== previousTheme.current ||
-      language !== previousLanguage.current
-    ) {
-      previousTheme.current = theme
-      previousLanguage.current = language
-      setThemeDictionary(themeToDict(theme, language))
-    }
-  }, [language, theme])
-
-  return themeDictionary
-}