Hosea 12:7-14 - Further Words Of Judgment

⁷ A merchant loves to extort
with dishonest scales in his hands.
⁸ But Ephraim says:
“How rich I have become;
I made it all myself.
In all my earnings,
no one can find any crime in me
that I can be punished for!”

⁹ I have been Yahweh your God
ever since the land of Egypt.
I will make you live in tents again,
as in the festival days.
¹⁰ I spoke through the prophets
and granted many visions;
I gave parables through the prophets.
¹¹ Since Gilead is full of evil,
they will certainly come to nothing.
They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;
even their altars will be like heaps of rocks
on the furrows of a field.

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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