12:1 Ephraim feeds on wind and follows after the east wind; he daily increases lies and desolation because they made a covenant with the Assyrians, and the oil is carried into Egypt.
12:2 The LORD also has a controversy with Judah to visit Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
12:3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and with his strength he overcame the angel;
12:4 yea, he dominated the angel and prevailed; he wept and made supplication unto him; he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us;
12:5 but the LORD is God of the hosts; the LORD is his memorial.
12:6 Therefore be thou converted unto thy God; keep mercy and judgment, and in thy God wait continually.
12:7 He is a merchant who has the balances of deceit in his hand; he loves to oppress.
12:8 And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich, I have found riches for myself; no one shall find iniquity in me, nor sin in all my labours.
12:9 But I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt; I will yet make thee to dwell in tents as in the days of the solemn feast.
12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the hand of the prophets.
12:11 Is Gilead iniquity? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
12:12 But Jacob fled into the land of Aram, and Israel served for his wife, and for his wife he was a pastor.
12:13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
12:14 Ephraim provoked God to anger with bitterness: therefore his blood shall be spilled upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord repay unto him.
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