ACV - Hosea - 12

12:1  Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. And they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

12:2  Jehovah has also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways. He will recompense him according to his doings.

12:3  In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he had strength with God.

12:4  Yea, he had strength over the agent, and prevailed, as he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us.

12:5  Even Jehovah, the God of hosts, Jehovah is his memorial.

12:6  Therefore turn thou to thy God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

12:7  He is a Canaanite. The balances of deceit are in his hand. He loves to oppress.

12:8  And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich. I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that is sin.

12:9  But I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.

12:10  I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions. And by the ministry of the prophets I have used similitudes.

12:11  Is Gilead iniquity? They are altogether false. In Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks. Yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.

12:12  And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

12:13  And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.

12:14  Ephraim has provoked to anger most bitterly. Therefore his blood shall be left upon him, and his reproach his Lord shall return to him.