| Chapter 12
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| 1 | Ephraim
feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies
and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is
carried into Egypt. |
| 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. |
| 3 | He took his brother by the heel in the
womb, and by his strength he had power with God: |
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4 | Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he
wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he
spake with us; |
| 5 | Even the
LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial. |
| 6 | Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment
and wait on thy God continually. |
| 7
| He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to
oppress. |
| 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. |
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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 days of the solemn
feast. |
| 10 | I have also
spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by
the ministry of the prophets. |
| 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 | And Jacob
fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he
kept sheep. |
| 13 | And by a
prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he
preserved. |
| 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. |
