AB - Hosea - 12

12:1  But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day. He has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.

12:2  And the Lord has a controversy with Judah, in order to punish Jacob: according to His ways and according to His practices will He recompense him.

12:3  He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labors he had power with God.

12:4  And he prevailed with the Angel and was strong. They wept, and entreated Me: they found Me in the house of On, and there a word was spoken to them.

12:5  But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.

12:6  You therefore shall return to your God. Keep mercy and judgment, and draw near to your God continually.

12:7  As for Canaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.

12:8  And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment for myself. None of his labors shall be found available to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.

12:9  But I the Lord your God brought you up out of the land of Egypt. I will yet cause you to dwell in tents, according to the days of the feast.

12:10  And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.

12:11  If Gilead exists not, then the chiefs in Gilead when they sacrificed were false, and their altars were as heaps on the ground of the field.

12:12  And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.

12:13  And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserved.

12:14  Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.