Hosea
12
- Ephraim feeds on the wind; he pursues the
east wind all day and multiplies lies and violence. He makes a treaty with
Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
- The LORD has a charge to bring against Judah;
he will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his
deeds.
- In the womb he grasped his brother's heel;
as a man he struggled with God.
- He struggled with the angel and overcame
him; he wept and begged for his favor. He found him at Bethel and talked with
him there --
- the LORD God Almighty, the LORD is his name
of renown !
- But you must return to your God; maintain
love and justice, and wait for your God always.
- The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves
to defraud.
- Ephraim boasts, "I am very rich; I
have become wealthy. With all my wealth they will not find in me any iniquity
or sin."
- "I am the LORD your God, who brought
you out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of your
appointed feasts.
- I spoke to the prophets, gave them many
visions and told parables through them."
- Is Gilead wicked? Its people are worthless!
Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Their altars will be like piles of stones
on a plowed field.
- Jacob fled to the country of Aram; Israel
served to get a wife, and to pay for her he tended sheep.
- The LORD used a prophet to bring Israel
up from Egypt, by a prophet he cared for him.
- But Ephraim has bitterly provoked him to
anger; his Lord will leave upon him the guilt of his bloodshed and will repay
him for his contempt.
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