Hosea 12:2-11 - Hosea's Wife And Children
2 The LORD also has a controversy with Judah to visit Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. 3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and with his strength he overcame the angel; 4 yea, he dominated the angel and prevailed; he wept and made supplication unto him; he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us; 5 but the LORD is God of the hosts; the LORD is his memorial. 6 Therefore be thou converted unto thy God; keep mercy and judgment, and in thy God wait continually.
7 He is a merchant who has the balances of deceit in his hand; he loves to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich, I have found riches for myself; no one shall find iniquity in me, nor sin in all my labours.
9 But I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt; I will yet make thee to dwell in tents as in the days of the solemn feast. 10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the hand of the prophets. 11 Is Gilead iniquity? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.