12Hosea 12

1Ephraim is enjoying wind, And is pursuing an east wind, All the day lying and spoiling he multiplieth, And a covenant with Asshur they make, And oil to Egypt is carried.Select Hosea 12:1

2And a controversy hath Jehovah with Judah, To lay a charge on Jacob according to his ways, According to his doings He returneth to him.Select Hosea 12:2

3In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And by his strength he was a prince with God,Select Hosea 12:3

4Yea, he is a prince unto the Messenger, And he overcometh by weeping, And he maketh supplication to Him, At Bethel He doth find him, And there He doth speak with us,Select Hosea 12:4

5Even Jehovah, God of the Hosts, Jehovah is His memorial.Select Hosea 12:5

6And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually.Select Hosea 12:6

7Canaan! in his hand are balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.Select Hosea 12:7

8And Ephraim saith: `Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours--they find not against me iniquity that is sin.'Select Hosea 12:8

9And I--Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, Again do I turn thee back into tents, As in the days of the appointed time.Select Hosea 12:9

10And I have spoken unto the prophets, And I have multiplied vision, And by the hand of the prophets I use similes.Select Hosea 12:10

11Surely Gilead is iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars are as heaps, on the furrows of a field.Select Hosea 12:11

12And Jacob doth flee to the country of Aram, And Israel doth serve for a wife, Yea, for a wife he hath kept watch.Select Hosea 12:12

13And by a prophet hath Jehovah brought up Israel out of Egypt, And by a prophet it hath been watched.Select Hosea 12:13

14Ephraim hath provoked most bitterly, And his blood on himself he leaveth, And his reproach turn back to him doth his Lord!Select Hosea 12:14