Hosea 12

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Hosea 12

God’s Case against Jacob’s Heirs

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Ephraim chases^(a) the wind^(A)
and pursues the east wind.^(B)
He continually multiplies lies and violence.
He makes a covenant with Assyria,^(C)
and olive oil is carried to Egypt.^(D)

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The Lord also has a dispute with Judah.
He is about to punish Jacob according to his ways;^(E)
He will repay him based on his actions.

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In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel,^(F)
and as an adult he wrestled with God.^(G)

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Jacob struggled with the Angel and prevailed;
he wept and sought His favor.^(H)
He found him^(b) at Bethel,^(I)
and there He spoke with him.^(c)^(J)

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Yahweh is the God of Hosts;
Yahweh is His name.^(K)

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But you must return to your God.^(L)
Maintain love and justice,^(M)
and always put your hope in God.^(N)

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A merchant loves to extort^(O)
with dishonest scales in his hands.^(P)

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But Ephraim says:
“How rich I have become;^(Q)
I made it all myself.
In all my earnings,
no one can find any crime in me^(R)
that I can be punished for!”^(d)

Judgment on Apostate Israel

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I have been Yahweh your God
ever since^(e) the land of Egypt.^(S)
I will make you live in tents again,^(T)
as in the festival days.

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I spoke through the prophets^(U)
and granted many visions;
I gave parables through the prophets.^(V)

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Since Gilead is full of evil,^(W)
they will certainly come to nothing.
They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;^(X)
even their altars will be like heaps of rocks^(Y)
on the furrows of a field.

Further Indictment of Jacob’s Heirs

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Jacob fled to the land of Aram.^(Z)
Israel worked to earn a wife;^(AA)
he tended flocks for a wife.^(AB)

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The Lord brought Israel from Egypt by a prophet,^(AC)
and Israel was tended by a prophet.

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Ephraim has provoked bitter anger,^(AD)
so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him^(AE)
and repay him for his contempt.^(AF)

Footnotes:

a. Hosea 12:1: Or feeds on, or tends

b. Hosea 12:4: Or Him

c. Hosea 12:4: LXX, Syr; MT reads us

d. Hosea 12:8: Lit crime which is sin

e. Hosea 12:9: LXX reads God who brought you out of

Cross references:

A. Hosea 12:1: Jeremiah 22:22

B. Hosea 12:1: Genesis 41:6; Ezekiel 17:10

C. Hosea 12:1: Hosea 5:13; Hosea 7:11; Hosea 8:9

D. Hosea 12:1: 2 Kings 17:4

E. Hosea 12:2: Hosea 4:9; Hosea 7:2

F. Hosea 12:3: Genesis 25:26; Genesis 27:36

G. Hosea 12:3: Genesis 32:24-28

H. Hosea 12:4: Genesis 32:26

I. Hosea 12:4: Genesis 28:13-15; Genesis 35:10-15

J. Hosea 12:4: Genesis 28:10-22; Genesis 35:1-14

K. Hosea 12:5: Exodus 3:15

L. Hosea 12:6: Hosea 6:1-3; Hosea 10:12

M. Hosea 12:6: Hosea 6:6

N. Hosea 12:6: Micah 7:7

O. Hosea 12:7: Hosea 7:14

P. Hosea 12:7: Proverbs 11:1; Amos 8:5

Q. Hosea 12:8: Psalm 62:10

R. Hosea 12:8: Amos 3:15; Amos 6:4-6

S. Hosea 12:9: Hosea 11:1; Hosea 13:3

T. Hosea 12:9: Leviticus 23:42

U. Hosea 12:10: Jeremiah 7:25

V. Hosea 12:10: Ezekiel 17:2; Ezekiel 20:49

W. Hosea 12:11: Hosea 6:8

X. Hosea 12:11: Hosea 4:15; Hosea 9:15

Y. Hosea 12:11: Hosea 8:11; Hosea 10:1-2

Z. Hosea 12:12: Genesis 28:5

AA. Hosea 12:12: Genesis 29:20

AB. Hosea 12:12: Genesis 29:1-20

AC. Hosea 12:13: Exodus 14:19-22; Isaiah 63:11-14

AD. Hosea 12:14: 2 Kings 17:7-18

AE. Hosea 12:14: Ezekiel 18:10-13

AF. Hosea 12:14: Daniel 11:18