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 [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.

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

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.

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 by [the] heel brother his and in manly vigor his he struggled 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

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.

5 and LORD God [the] Hosts LORD memorial his

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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 [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.

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

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

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] 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.

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

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

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

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.