Hosea 12

1 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

EPHRAIM feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

2 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

The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

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

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

4 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

Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us;

5 and LORD God [the] Hosts LORD memorial his

Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his memorial.

6 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

Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

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

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

8 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

And Ephraim said, Yet 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 LORD God your from land: country/planet Egypt still to dwell you in/on/with tent like/as day meeting: festival

And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.

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

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

11 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

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

12 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

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

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

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

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

Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.