Hos 12:1 Ephraim’s food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.
Hos 12:2 The Lord has a cause against Judah, and will give punishment to Jacob for his ways; he will give him the reward of his acts.
Hos 12:3 In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;
Hos 12:4 He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him;
Hos 12:5 Even the Lord, the God of armies; the Lord is his name.
Hos 12:6 So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.
Hos 12:7 As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
Hos 12:8 And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.
Hos 12:9 But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will give you tents for your living-places again as in the days of the holy meeting.
Hos 12:10 My word came to the ears of the prophets and I gave them visions in great number, and by the mouths of the prophets I made use of comparisons.
Hos 12:11 In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.
Hos 12:12 And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
Hos 12:13 And by a prophet the Lord made Israel come up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept safe.
Hos 12:14 I have been bitterly moved to wrath by Ephraim; so that his blood will be on him, and the Lord will make his shame come back on him.
Hos 13:1 When the words of my law came from Ephraim, he was lifted up in Israel; but when he did evil through the Baal, death overtook him.
Hos 13:2 And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.
Hos 13:3 So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.
Hos 13:4 But I am the Lord your God, from the land of Egypt; you have knowledge of no other God and there is no saviour but me.
Hos 13:5 I had knowledge of you in the waste land where no water was.
Hos 13:6 When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.
Hos 13:7 So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;
Hos 13:8 I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.
Hos 13:9 I have sent destruction on you, O Israel; who will be your helper?
Hos 13:10 Where is your king, that he may be your saviour? and all your rulers, that they may take up your cause? of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers.
Hos 13:11 I have given you a king, because I was angry, and have taken him away in my wrath.
Hos 13:12 The wrongdoing of Ephraim is shut up; his sin is put away in secret.
Hos 13:13 The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.
Hos 13:14 I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.
Hos 13:15 Though he gives fruit among his brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the waste land, and his spring will become dry, his fountain will be without water: it will make waste the store of all the vessels of his desire.
Hos 13:16 Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.
Hos 14:1 O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.
Hos 14:2 Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.
Hos 14:3 Assyria will not be our salvation; we will not go on horses; we will not again say to the work of our hands, You are our gods; for in you there is mercy for the child who has no father.
Hos 14:4 I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.
Hos 14:5 I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.
Hos 14:6 His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.
Hos 14:7 They will come back and have rest in his shade; their life will be made new like the grain, and they will put out flowers like the vine; his name will be like the wine of Lebanon.
Hos 14:8 As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.
Hos 14:9 He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.

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