Hosea 12:7-14 - Further Words Of Judgment

⁷ A trafficker! in his hand, are balances of deceit, to oppress, he loveth. ⁸ So then Ephraim said, Surely I have gotten me riches, I have found wealth for myself, - in all my toils, they cannot find in me perversity which is sin.

⁹ But, I, Yahweh, have been thy God, from the land of Egypt, - I will yet make thee dwell in tents, as in the days of appointed meeting. ¹⁰ And I will lay my word upon the prophets, yea, I myself, have magnified, vision, - and, by the hand of the prophets, will I use similitudes. ¹¹ If, Gilead, is in sorrow, surely false, have they been, In Gilgal, have they sacrificed, bullocks, - their very altars, shall become as heaps upon the furrows of the field.

¹² When Jacob fled to the country of Syria, then Israel served for a wife, and, for a wife, he watched over a flock. ¹³ And, by a prophet, Yahweh, brought up, Israel out of Egypt, - and, by a prophet, was he watched over.

¹⁴ Ephraim hath provoked, very bitterly, - his own blood, therefore, upon him, will he leave, and, his reproach, shall his Lord, bring back to him.