Thematic Bible

Hosea 12:1

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

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

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

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

Yea, the LORD God of hosts, even the LORD himself remembered him:

Hosea 12:6

Then turn to thy God, keep mercy and equity, and hope still in thy God.

Hosea 12:7

But the merchant hath a false weight in his hand, he hath a pleasure to occupy extortion.

Hosea 12:8

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

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

I have spoken through the prophets, and showed divers visions, and declared myself by the ministration of the prophets.

Hosea 12:11

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

Jacob fled into the land of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Hosea 12:13

By a prophet the LORD brought them out of Egypt, and by a prophet he preserved them.

Hosea 12:14

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.