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Hosea 12
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| 12:1
Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily
increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the
Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt. |
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| 12:2
The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob
according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. |
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| 12:3
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had
power with God: |
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| 12:4
Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made
supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us; |
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| 12:5
Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial. |
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| 12:6
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment and wait on thy
God continually. |
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| 12:7
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to
oppress. |
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| 12:8
And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in
all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin. |
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| 12:9
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. |
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| 12:10
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and
used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. |
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| 12:11
Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice
bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the
fields. |
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| 12:12
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife,
and for a wife he kept sheep. |
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| 12:13
And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet
was he preserved. |
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| 12:14
Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly:
therefore shall he leave his
blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto him.
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The blame for Ephraim's bloody destruction falls on Ephraim,
not on God. Even though God is the one who brings it about.
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