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.

Ephraim feedeth on wind, and pursueth after the east wind: all day long he multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried 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.

Jehovah hath also a controversy with Judah, and he will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings 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 strength he wrestled 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.

Yea, he wrestled with the Angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us,

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

— even Jehovah, the God of hosts, — Jehovah is his memorial.

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

And thou, return unto thy God: keep loving-kindness and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

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

[He is] a merchant, balances of deceit are in his hand; he loveth to oppress.

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 saith, Nevertheless 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 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 [that am] Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt will again make thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn 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 have spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by means of the prophets have I used similitudes.

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 Gilead is iniquity, surely they are but vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

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 fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].

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

And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

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 provoked [him] to anger most bitterly; and his Lord shall leave his blood upon him, and recompense unto him his reproach.