Hosea 12:4-14 ▼

4 So he strove with an angel, and prevailed; He wept, and made supplication unto him; At Beth-el he would find him, And there he would speak with us;

5 But the LORD, the God of hosts, The LORD is His name.

6 Therefore turn thou to thy God; Keep mercy and justice, And wait for thy God continually.

7 As for the trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand. He loveth to oppress.

8 And Ephraim said: 'Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth; In all my labours they shall find in me No iniquity that were sin.'

9 But I am the LORD thy God From the land of Egypt; I will yet again make thee to dwell in tents, As in the days of the appointed season.

10 I have also spoken unto the prophets, And I have multiplied visions; And by the ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes.

11 If Gilead be given to iniquity Becoming altogether vanity, In Gilgal they sacrifice unto bullocks; Yea, their altars shall be as heaps In the furrows of the field.

12 And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, And Israel served for a wife, And for a wife he kept sheep.

13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel up out of Egypt, And by a prophet was he kept.

14 Ephraim hath provoked most bitterly; Therefore shall his blood be cast upon him, And his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.