Thematic Bible
Hosea 12:1 (show verse)
Ephraim keepeth the air, and followeth after the east wind: he is ever increasing lies and destruction. They be confederate with the Assyrians, their oil is carried into Egypt.
Hosea 12:2 (show verse)
The LORD hath a court to hold with Judah, and will punish Jacob: After their own ways and according to their own inventions, shall he recompense them.
Hosea 12:3 (show verse)
He took his brother by the heel, when he was yet in his mother's womb: and in his strength he wrestled with God.
Hosea 12:4 (show verse)
He strove with the angel, and gat the victory: so that he prayed and desired him. He found him at Bethel, and there he talked with us.
Hosea 12:5 (show verse)
Yea, the LORD God of hosts, even the LORD himself remembered him:
Hosea 12:6 (show verse)
Then turn to thy God, keep mercy and equity, and hope still in thy God.
Hosea 12:7 (show verse)
But the merchant hath a false weight in his hand, he hath a pleasure to occupy extortion.
Hosea 12:8 (show verse)
Ephraim thinketh thus, "Tush, I am rich, I have good enough: In all my works shall not one fault be found, that I have offended."
Hosea 12:9 (show verse)
Yet am I the LORD thy God, even as when I brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and set thee in thy tents, and as in the high feast days.
Hosea 12:10 (show verse)
I have spoken through the prophets, and showed divers visions, and declared myself by the ministration of the prophets.
Hosea 12:11 (show verse)
But at Gilead is the abomination, they are fallen to vanity. At Gilgal they have slain oxen: and as many heaps of stones as they had in their land furrows, so many altars have they made.
Hosea 12:12 (show verse)
Jacob fled into the land of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
Hosea 12:13 (show verse)
By a prophet the LORD brought them out of Egypt, and by a prophet he preserved them.
Hosea 12:14 (show verse)
But Ephraim hath provoked him to displeasure through his abominations; therefore shall his blood be poured upon himself, and the LORD his God shall reward him his blasphemies.