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Hosea 12

¹ [30] [1] 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.

²The LORD has a charge to bring against Judah; he will punish Jacob [31] according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.

³In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel; as a man he struggled with God.

⁴He struggled with the angel and overcame him; he wept and begged for his favor. He found him at Bethel and talked with him there —

⁵the LORD God Almighty, the LORD is his name!

⁶But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and wait for your God always.

⁷The merchant uses dishonest scales and loves to defraud.

⁸Ephraim boasts, “I am very rich; I have become wealthy. With all my wealth they will not find in me any iniquity or sin.”

⁹“I have been the LORD your God ever since you came out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of your appointed festivals.

¹⁰I spoke to the prophets, gave them many visions and told parables through them.”

¹¹Is Gilead wicked? Its people are worthless! Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Their altars will be like piles of stones on a plowed field.

¹²Jacob fled to the country of Aram [32]; Israel served to get a wife, and to pay for her he tended sheep.

¹³The LORD used a prophet to bring Israel up from Egypt, by a prophet he cared for him.

¹⁴But Ephraim has aroused his bitter anger; his Lord will leave on him the guilt of his bloodshed and will repay him for his contempt.