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 pascit ventum, et sequitur æstum; tota die mendacium et vastitatem multiplicat: et fœdus cum Assyriis iniit, et oleum in Ægyptum ferebat.

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.

Judicium ergo Domini cum Juda, et visitatio super Jacob: juxta vias ejus, et juxta adinventiones ejus reddet ei.

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

In utero supplantavit fratrem suum, et in fortitudine sua directus est cum angelo.

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.

Et invaluit ad angelum, et confortatus est; flevit, et rogavit eum. In Bethel invenit eum, et ibi locutus est nobiscum.

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

Et Dominus Deus exercituum, Dominus memoriale ejus.

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

Et tu ad Deum tuum converteris; misericordiam et judicium custodi, et spera in Deo tuo semper.

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

Chanaan, in manu ejus statera dolosa, calumniam dilexit.

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.

Et dixit Ephraim: Verumtamen dives effectus sum; inveni idolum mihi: omnes labores mei non invenient mihi iniquitatem quam peccavi.

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.

Et ego Dominus Deus tuus ex terra Ægypti: adhuc sedere te faciam in tabernaculis, sicut in diebus festivitatis.

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

Et locutus sum super prophetas, et ego visionem multiplicavi, et in manu prophetarum assimilatus sum.

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.

Si Galaad idolum, ergo frustra erant in Galgal bobus immolantes; nam et altaria eorum quasi acervi super sulcos agri.

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

Fugit Jacob in regionem Syriæ, et servivit Israël in uxorem, et in uxorem servavit.

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

In propheta autem eduxit Dominus Israël de Ægypto, et in propheta servatus est.

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.

Ad iracundiam me provocavit Ephraim in amaritudinibus suis: et sanguis ejus super eum veniet, et opprobrium ejus restituet ei Dominus suus.