HO-12:1  Ephraim 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.

HO-12:2  The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will

punish Jacob

according to his ways; according to his doings will he

recompense him.

HO-12:3  He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his

strength he

had power with God:

HO-12:4  Yea, 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;

HO-12:5  Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD [is] his memorial.

HO-12:6  Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment,

 and wait on

thy God continually.

HO-12:7  [He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his

hand: he

loveth to oppress.

HO-12:8  And 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.

HO-12:9  And 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.

HO-12:10  I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have

multiplied visions,

and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.

HO-12:11  [Is 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.

HO-12:12  And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel

served for a

wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].

HO-12:13  And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt,

and by a

prophet was he preserved.

HO-12:14  Ephraim 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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