| Hosea 12:1 |
Ephraim feeds on wind / And follows the east wind continually; / He multiplies lies and violence. / They make a covenant with Assyria, / And oil is carried into Egypt. |
| Hosea 12:2 |
Jehovah has also a controversy with Judah / And will punish Jacob according to his ways; / According to his doings He will recompense him. |
| Hosea 12:3 |
In the womb he grasped his brother by the heel, / And in his full strength he contended with God. |
| Hosea 12:4 |
Indeed he contended with the Angel and prevailed; / He wept and made supplication to Him. / At Bethel he found Him; / And there He spoke with us, |
| Hosea 12:5 |
Even Jehovah the God of hosts; / Jehovah is His memorial. |
| Hosea 12:6 |
And you, return [there] to your God; / Keep lovingkindness and justice, / And wait on your God continually. |
| Hosea 12:7 |
[He is] a merchant; / In his hand are balances of deceit; / He loves to extort. |
| Hosea 12:8 |
And Ephraim said, / I have surely become rich; / I have found wealth for myself. / In all my labors / They will find with me / No iniquity, which would be sin. |
| Hosea 12:9 |
But I have been Jehovah your God / Since the land of Egypt; / Yet again I will cause you to dwell in tents / As in the days of the appointed feast. |
| Hosea 12:10 |
I have also spoken unto the prophets: / And I have multiplied vision, / And through the prophets I have used similitudes. |
| Hosea 12:11 |
Is Gilead iniquity? They are altogether vanity. / In Gilgal they sacrifice oxen; / Indeed their altars are like heaps / In the furrows of a field. |
| Hosea 12:12 |
And Jacob fled into the country of Aram; / And Israel served for a wife, / And for a wife he kept [sheep.] |
| Hosea 12:13 |
And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel up from Egypt, / And by a prophet he was kept. |
| Hosea 12:14 |
Ephraim provoked [Him] to bitter anger; / Therefore his Lord will leave his bloodshed upon him / And will recompense him with his own reproach. |