< 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; Every day he multiplieth falsehood and violence; They make a league with Assyria, 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
Therefore Jehovah hath a controversy with Judah. And he will punish Jacob for his ways, And requite him according to his doings.
3 in/on/with belly: womb to assail [obj] brother: male-sibling his and in/on/with strength his to strive with God
In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And in his strength he contended 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 contended with the angel, and prevailed; He wept, and made supplication to him. At Bethel he found him, And there he spake with us.
5 and LORD God [the] Hosts LORD memorial his
And Jehovah, the God of hosts, Jehovah is his name.
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; Observe mercy and justice, And hope in thy God always!
7 merchant in/on/with hand his balance deceit to/for to oppress to love: lover
He is a Canaanite; in his hands are the balances of deceit; 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
Yet Ephraim saith, Lo, I have become rich; I have found myself substance; In all my earnings can be found no transgression in which there is guilt.
9 and I LORD God your from land: country/planet Egypt still to dwell you in/on/with tent like/as day meeting: festival
Yet I, Jehovah, have been thy God from the land of Egypt; I will again cause thee to dwell in tents, 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 to the prophets, And I have given many visions, And by the prophets I have used similitudes.
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
Behold, Gilead is full of iniquity; Surely they have become corrupt; In Gilgal they sacrifice oxen, And their altars are like the heaps in the furrows of the field.
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
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
By a prophet Jehovah brought up 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 hath provoked his Lord most bitterly; Therefore will he leave his blood upon him, And recompense to him his reproach.

< Hosea 12 >