Hosea 12  Jubilee Bible 2000

12 ¶ Ephraim feeds on wind and follows after the east wind; he daily increases lies and desolation because they made a covenant with the Assyrians, and the oil is carried into Egypt.

² The LORD also has a controversy with Judah to visit Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

³ He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and with his strength he overcame the angel;

⁴ yea, he dominated the angel and prevailed; he wept and made supplication unto him; he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us;

⁵ but the LORD is God of the hosts; the LORD is his memorial.

⁶ Therefore be thou converted unto thy God; keep mercy and judgment, and in thy God wait continually.

⁷ ¶ He is a merchant who has the balances of deceit in his hand; he loves to oppress.

⁸ And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich, I have found riches for myself; no one shall find iniquity in me, nor sin in all my labours.

⁹ But I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt; I will yet make thee to dwell in tents as in the days of the solemn feast.

¹⁰ I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the hand of the prophets.

¹¹ Is Gilead iniquity? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

¹² But Jacob fled into the land of Aram, and Israel served for his wife, and for his wife he was a pastor.

¹³ And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.

¹⁴ Ephraim provoked God to anger with bitterness: therefore his blood shall be spilled upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord repay unto him.