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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1 "Ephraim feeds on the wind, chasing after the eastern winds, storing up lies and desolation day after day. They are making a contract with the Assyrians, and sending oil to Egypt. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The LORD accuses Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him for what he does. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3He circumvented his brother in the womb, and as an adult he fought with God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He even fought the angel and won; he cried and prayed to him. Then at Bethel he found him, and there he spoke with us— |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies— the LORD is his name. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6So you, return to your God; guard grace and justice, and look to your God always. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Now as for the merchant, deceitful balances remain in his hand, and he loves to defraud. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Ephraim claims, 'I have become rich, I have made a fortune! Because of all my wealth, no one will find any iniquity or sin in me.' |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Yet I remain the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. I will make you live in tents again, as in the festival of that name. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I spoke to the prophets, giving revelation after revelation, and employing parables in the prophetic writings. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"There's iniquity in Gilead, isn't there? They have become truly vain. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; their altars are like piles of stone in furrowed fields. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Jacob fled into the land of Aram; Israel served there to obtain his wife, tending sheep to gain his wife. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"By a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was rescued. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Ephraim has stirred up violent anger; therefore the guilt of his blood will remain on him, and his Lord will repay him for his contempt." |
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