Hosea 12:7-14 - Further Words Of Judgment
7 He is a merchant; the scales of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found much wealth for myself. In all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that is sin.
9 And I Jehovah, who have been your God from the land of Egypt, will yet make you to dwell in tents as in the days of the appointed feast. 10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions and have used parables by the hand of the prophets. 11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are vanity; they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal. Yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept watch. 13 And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept safe.
14 Ephraim provoked Me to anger most bitterly; therefore he shall leave his blood on him, and his Lord shall turn his reproach to him.