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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Ephraim 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Yea, 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And 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. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Is 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him. |
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