Hosea 12:7-14 - Further Words Of Judgment

⁷ "Now as for the merchant, deceitful balances remain in his hand, and he loves to defraud. ⁸ Ephraim claims, "I have become rich, I have made a fortune! Because of all my wealth, no one will find any iniquity or sin in me.'

⁹ "Yet I remain the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. I will make you live in tents again, as in the festival of that name. ¹⁰ I spoke to the prophets, giving revelation after revelation, and employing parables in the prophetic writings. ¹¹ "There's iniquity in Gilead, isn't there? They have become truly vain. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; their altars are like piles of stone in furrowed fields.

¹² Jacob fled into the land of Aram; Israel served there to obtain his wife, tending sheep to gain his wife. ¹³ "By a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was rescued.

¹⁴ Ephraim has stirred up violent anger; therefore the guilt of his blood will remain on him, and his Lord will repay him for his contempt."