Hosea 12

1 Ephraim striveth after wind, and followeth after the east wind; all the day he multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Ephraim to pasture spirit: breath and to pursue east all [the] day lie and violence to multiply and covenant with Assyria to cut: make(covenant) and oil to/for Egypt to conduct

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.

and strife to/for LORD with Judah and to/for to reckon: punish upon Jacob like/as way: conduct his like/as deed his to return: pay to/for him

3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and by his strength he strove with a godlike being;

in/on/with belly: womb to assail [obj] brother: male-sibling his and in/on/with strength his to strive with God

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;

and to reign to(wards) messenger: angel and be able to weep and be gracious to/for him Bethel Bethel to find him and there to speak: speak with us

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

and LORD God [the] Hosts LORD memorial his

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

and you(m. s.) in/on/with God your to return: return kindness and justice to keep: careful and to await to(wards) God your continually

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

merchant in/on/with hand his balance deceit to/for to oppress to love: lover

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.'

and to say Ephraim surely to enrich to find strength to/for me all toil my not to find to/for me iniquity: crime which 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.

and I LORD God your from land: country/planet Egypt still to dwell you in/on/with tent like/as day meeting: festival

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

and to speak: speak upon [the] prophet and I vision to multiply and in/on/with hand: by [the] prophet to resemble

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.

if Gilead evil: wickedness surely vanity: vain to be in/on/with Gilgal cattle to sacrifice also altar their like/as heap upon furrow field

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

and to flee Jacob land: country Aram and to serve Israel in/on/with woman: wife and in/on/with woman: wife to keep: guard

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

and in/on/with prophet to ascend: establish LORD [obj] Israel from Egypt and in/on/with prophet to keep: guard

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

to provoke Ephraim bitterness and blood his upon him to leave and reproach his to return: pay to/for him lord his