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12 Ephraim herds the wind
and hunts a sirocco,
piling up fraud and falsehood daily,
striking a bargain with Assyria,
carrying presents of oil to Egypt.
2 The Eternal arraigns Israel,
to punish Jacob for his doings,
to requite him for his deeds.
3a “Within the womb Jacob supplanted his brother;
12 he fled to the land of Aram,
where Israel served for a wife,
for a wife he herded sheep.
3b In manhood he strove with God,
4 strove with the Angel and prevailed;
he wept and entreated Him;
he met Him at Bethel,
and there He said to him
5 [[the Eternal is the God of hosts,
the Eternal is his name]],
6 ‘Dwell in your tents,
ever be kind and just,
and in your God put your unfailing trust.’ ”
7 Swindler! he loves to practise fraud,
the false scales in his hand.
8 Does Ephraim say, “Well, I am rich,
I’ve wealth at my command”?
Not all his gains will be enough
to expiate his guilt.
9 For I am your God, the Eternal,
ever since you left Egypt,
and I can send you back to live
in tents as in the desert long ago.
10 I spoke to the prophets,
I gave many a vision;
and by the prophets I will make them perish
11 together with their empty idols–
so worthless are thy now
[[By a prophet the Eternal brought
13 Israel from Egypt, by a prophet
they were kept alive]];
11 at Gilgal they sacrifice to demons!
So shall their altars be heaps of stones
among the furrows of a field.
14 Ephraim has provoked God bitterly;
so I will crush him suddenly,
and repay him for his insults.