Hosea 12:2-11 - Hosea's Wife And Children

² The LORD accuses Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him for what he does. ³ He circumvented his brother in the womb, and as an adult he fought with God. ⁴ He even fought the angel and won; he cried and prayed to him. Then at Bethel he found him, and there he spoke with us ⁵ the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies the LORD is his name. ⁶ So you, return to your God; guard grace and justice, and look to your God always.

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.