Hosea 12:7-14 - Further Words Of Judgment

⁷ The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales. ⁸ Ephraim boasts, "I am very rich! I have become wealthy! In all that I have done to gain my wealth, no one can accuse me of any offense that is actually sinful."

⁹ "I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again as in the days of old. ¹⁰ I spoke to the prophets; I myself revealed many visions; I spoke in parables through the prophets." ¹¹ Is there idolatry in Gilead? Certainly its inhabitants will come to nothing! Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Surely their altars will be like stones heaped up on a plowed field!

¹² Jacob fled to the country of Aram, then Israel worked to acquire a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her. ¹³ The Lord brought Israel out of Egypt by a prophet, and due to a prophet Israel was preserved alive.

¹⁴ But Ephraim bitterly provoked him to anger; so he will hold him accountable for the blood he has shed, his Lord will repay him for the contempt he has shown.