Hosea 12:1 Ephraim feeds on wind / And follows the east wind continually; / He multiplies lies and violence. / They make a covenant with Assyria, / And oil is carried into Egypt.
Hosea 12:2 Jehovah has also a controversy with Judah / And will punish Jacob according to his ways; / According to his doings He will recompense him.
Hosea 12:3 In the womb he grasped his brother by the heel, / And in his full strength he contended with God.
Hosea 12:4 Indeed he contended with the Angel and prevailed; / He wept and made supplication to Him. / At Bethel he found Him; / And there He spoke with us,
Hosea 12:5 Even Jehovah the God of hosts; / Jehovah is His memorial.
Hosea 12:6 And you, return there to your God; / Keep lovingkindness and justice, / And wait on your God continually.
Hosea 12:7 He is a merchant; / In his hand are balances of deceit; / He loves to extort.
Hosea 12:8 And Ephraim said, / I have surely become rich; / I have found wealth for myself. / In all my labors / They will find with me / No iniquity, which would be sin.
Hosea 12:9 But I have been Jehovah your God / Since the land of Egypt; / Yet again I will cause you to dwell in tents / As in the days of the appointed feast.
Hosea 12:10 I have also spoken unto the prophets: / And I have multiplied vision, / And through the prophets I have used similitudes.
Hosea 12:11 Is Gilead iniquity? They are altogether vanity. / In Gilgal they sacrifice oxen; / Indeed their altars are like heaps / In the furrows of a field.
Hosea 12:12 And Jacob fled into the country of Aram; / And Israel served for a wife, / And for a wife he kept sheep.
Hosea 12:13 And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel up from Egypt, / And by a prophet he was kept.
Hosea 12:14 Ephraim provoked Him to bitter anger; / Therefore his Lord will leave his bloodshed upon him / And will recompense him with his own reproach.