Hosea 12:12-Hosea 13:3 - Further Indictment Of Jacob's Heirs

¹² Jacob fled to the land of Aram.
Israel worked to earn a wife;
he tended flocks for a wife.
¹³ The Lord brought Israel from Egypt by a prophet,
and Israel was tended by a prophet.

¹⁴ Ephraim has provoked bitter anger,
so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him
and repay him for his contempt.

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¹ When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling;
he was exalted in Israel.
But he incurred guilt through Baal and died.

² Now they continue to sin
and make themselves a cast image,
idols skillfully made from their silver,
all of them the work of craftsmen.
People say about them,
“Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves.”
³ Therefore, they will be like the morning mist,
like the early dew that vanishes,
like chaff blown from a threshing floor,
or like smoke from a window.