Hosea 12:4-14 ▼

4 Jacob struggled with the Angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor. He found him at Bethel, and there He spoke with him.

5 Yahweh is the God of Hosts; Yahweh is His name.

6 But you must return to your God. Maintain love and justice, and always put your hope in God.

7 A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.

8 But Ephraim says:” How rich I have become; I made it all myself. In all my earnings, no one can find any crime in me that I can be punished for!”

9 I have been Yahweh your God ever since the land of Egypt. I will make you live in tents again, as in the festival days.

10 I spoke through the prophets and granted many visions; I gave parables through the prophets.

11 Since Gilead is full of evil, they will certainly come to nothing. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; even their altars will be like heaps of rocks on the furrows of a field.

12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram. Israel worked to earn a wife; he tended flocks for a wife.

13 The LORD brought Israel from Egypt by a prophet, and Israel was tended by a prophet.

14 Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and repay him for his contempt.