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 multiplieth 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

Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him [in] Beth-el, and there he spoke 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 have become rich, I have found for myself substance: [in] all my labors they shall find no 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; yes, 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 will he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach will his Lord return to him.