Hosea 12
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1Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and violence. He makes a covenant with Assyria, and olive oil is carried to Egypt.1Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
2The LORD also has a dispute with Judah. He is about to punish Jacob according to his conduct; he will repay him based on his actions.2The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
3In the womb he grasped his brother's heel, and as an adult he wrestled with God.3He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
4Jacob struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought his favor. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with him.4Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;
5The LORD is the God of Armies; the LORD is his name.5Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.
6But you must return to your God. Maintain love and justice, and always put your hope in God.6Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
7A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.7He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
8But Ephraim thinks, "How rich I have become; I made it all myself. In all my earnings, no one can find any iniquity in me that I can be punished for!"8And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
9I have been the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt. I will make you live in tents again, as in the festival days.9And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
10I will speak through the prophets and grant many visions; I will give parables through the prophets.10I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
11Since Gilead is full of evil, they will certainly come to nothing. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; even their altars will be like piles of rocks on the furrows of a field.11Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
12Jacob fled to the territory of Aram. Israel worked to earn a wife; he tended flocks for a wife.12And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
13The LORD brought Israel from Egypt by a prophet, and Israel was tended by a prophet.13And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
14Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and repay him for his contempt.14Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
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Hosea 11
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