Hosea Chapter 12
12:1 | Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they ![]() |
12:2 | The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. |
12:3 | He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had ![]() |
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12:5 | Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD [is] his memorial. |
12:6 | Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. |
12:7 | [He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress. |
12:8 | And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: [in] all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that [were] sin. |
12:9 | And I [that am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the ![]() |
12:10 | I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. |
12:11 | [Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields. |
12:12 | And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and ![]() ![]() |
12:13 | And by a prophet the LORD brought ![]() |
12:14 | Ephraim provoked [him] to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him. |