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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