12:1 “Ephraim surrounded Me with lies and the house of Israel with deceit.” Though Judah roams restlessly with God, yet he is faithful with holy things.
12:2 Ephraim is grazing on wind and pursuing the east wind. All day he multiplies lies and ruin: making a pact with Assyria, while carrying oil to Egypt.
12:3 Adonai also has a dispute with Judah: He will punish Jacob for his ways, repaying him for his deeds.
12:4 In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he strove with God.
12:5 Yes, he wrestled with the angel and won; he wept and sought his favor. At Bethel he will find us, and there He will speak with us.
12:6 Even Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot— Adonai is His memorial-Name.
12:7 So you should return to your God, keep covenant loyalty and justice, and wait for your God continually.
12:8 A merchant loves to extort, with deceptive balances in his hand.
12:9 Now Ephraim has said: “How rich I have become! I found wealth by myself. I won’t be guilty of any sin with any of my property.”
12:10 “Yet I have been Adonai your God, since the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the moed.
12:11 I also spoke through the prophets and I multiplied visions. Now through the prophets I will make parables.
12:12 Since Gilead is full of iniquity, they are utterly worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls— even their altars will become heaps of rocks along the furrows of My field.”
12:13 Now Jacob fled to the field of Aram, when Israel served for a wife— yes, he kept watch for a wife.
12:14 So by a prophet Adonai brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept.
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