Hosea 12
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- 1Ephraim feeds on wind and chases after the east wind. He daily increases lies and desolation; they make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
- 2The LORD also has a dispute with Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him for his actions.
- 3He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God.
- 4Yes, he had power over the angel and prevailed. He wept and pleaded with him. He found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us.
- 5Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is how he is remembered.
- 6So turn back to your God! Hold on to mercy and justice, and wait for your God at all times.
- 7He is a merchant, with deceitful scales in his hand; he loves to oppress.
- 8Ephraim said, “Still, I have become rich and found wealth for myself. In all my work, they will find no wrongdoing in me that is sin.”
- 9"But I am the LORD your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt. I will make you live in tents again, just like during the festival days."
- 10"I spoke through the prophets and gave them vision after vision. Through those same prophets, I used parables to teach you."
- 11Is there wickedness in Gilead? Surely they are worthless. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal. Their altars are like piles in the plowed rows of the fields.
- 12Jacob fled to the land of Aram. There Israel worked to earn a wife, and for a wife he tended sheep.
- 13Through a prophet, the LORD brought Israel up out of Egypt, and through a prophet, he kept them safe.
- 14But Ephraim has provoked the LORD to bitter anger. So his LORD will leave the guilt of their bloodshed on them and repay them for the contempt they've shown him.