Hosea 12

1 Ephraim [is] feeding wind and [is] pursuing an east wind all the day falsehood and violence he increases and a covenant with Assyria they are making and oil to Egypt it is carried.

But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day: he has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.

2 And a case at law [belongs] to Yahweh with Judah and to visit [judgment] on Jacob according to ways his according to deeds his he will repay to him.

And the Lord [has] a controversy with Juda, in order to punish Jacob: according to his ways and according to his practices will he recompense him.

3 In the womb he took by [the] heel brother his and in manly vigor his he struggled with God.

He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.

4 And he struggled against an angel and he prevailed he wept and he sought favor to him Beth-el he found him and there he spoke with us.

And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and intreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there [a word] was spoken to them.

5 And Yahweh [the] God of hosts Yahweh [is] memorial his.

But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.

6 And you in God your you will return loyalty and justice keep and wait to God your continually.

Thou therefore shalt return to thy God: keep thou mercy and judgment, and draw nigh to thy God continually.

7 Canaan [who are] in hand his scales of deceit to defraud he loves.

[As for] Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.

8 And he has said Ephraim surely I have become rich I have found wealth for myself all toil my not people will find to me iniquity which [is] sin.

And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labours shall be found [available] to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.

9 And I [have been] Yahweh God your from [the] land of Egypt again I will cause to dwell you in tents like [the] days of an appointed feast.

But I the Lord thy God brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: I will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, according to the days of the feast.

10 And I spoke to the prophets and I vision[s] I multiplied and by [the] hand of the prophets I gave parables.

And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.

11 [is] Gilead Wickedness surely worthlessness they are in Gilgal bulls they have sacrificed also altars their [are] like heaps of stones on [the] furrows of a field.

If Galaad exists not, then the chiefs in Galaad when they sacrificed were false, and their altars were as heaps on the ground of the field.

12 And he fled Jacob [the] region of Aram and he served Israel for a wife and for a wife he kept [flocks].

And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.

13 And by a prophet he brought up Yahweh Israel from Egypt and by a prophet he was kept.

And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserve.

14 He has provoked to anger Ephraim bitterness and blood his on him he will leave and reproach his he will repay to him lord his.

Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.