Hos 12
1
But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day: he has multiplied
empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in
the way of traffic into Egypt.
2
And the Lord has a controversy with Juda, in order to punish Jacob: according to his
ways and according to his practices will he recompense him.
3
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with
God.
4
And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and intreated me: they
found me in the house of On, and there a word was spoken to them.
5
But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.
6
You therefore shall return to your God: keep you mercy and judgement, and draw nigh
to your God continually.
7
As for Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.
8
And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None
of his labours shall be found available to him, by reason of the sins which he has
committed.
9
But I the Lord your God brought you up out of the land of Egypt: I will yet cause
you to dwell in tabernacles, according to the days of the feast.
10
And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means
of the prophets I was represented.
11
See Heb. If Galaad exists not, then the chiefs in Galaad when they sacrificed were false,
and their altars were as heaps on the ground of the field.
12
And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited
for a wife.
13
And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet
was he preserved.
14
Ephraim was angry and Gr. excited himself to anger excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord
shall recompense
to him his reproach.