Hosea 12:7-14 - Further Words Of Judgment

⁷ Canaan! in his hand are balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved. ⁸ And Ephraim saith: 'Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours -- they find not against me iniquity that is sin.'

⁹ And I -- Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, Again do I turn thee back into tents, As in the days of the appointed time. ¹⁰ And I have spoken unto the prophets, And I have multiplied vision, And by the hand of the prophets I use similes. ¹¹ Surely Gilead is iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars are as heaps, on the furrows of a field.

¹² And Jacob doth flee to the country of Aram, And Israel doth serve for a wife, Yea, for a wife he hath kept watch. ¹³ And by a prophet hath Jehovah brought up Israel out of Egypt, And by a prophet it hath been watched.

¹⁴ Ephraim hath provoked most bitterly, And his blood on himself he leaveth, And his reproach turn back to him doth his Lord!