ULT HOS Chapter 12

12 Ephraim is feeding on wind

and pursuing the east-wind all the day.

He multiplies lies and destruction.

And they cut a covenant with Assyria,

and oil is carried to Egypt.

2 And a dispute is to Yahweh with Judah,

and to punish Jacob according to his ways;

according to his deeds he will repay to him.

3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel,

and in his manhood he struggled with God.

4 And he struggled with an angel and prevailed.

He wept and begged favor of him.

At Bethel he found him,

and there he spoke with us.

5 And Yahweh, the God of armies—

Yahweh is his memorial name.

6 And you, by your God you must return.

Keep covenant faithfulness and justice,

and wait for your God continually.

7 A merchant—in his hand are scales of deceit—

he loves to oppress.

8 And Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich;

I have found wealth for myself.

All of my labors—they will not find iniquity in me

that would be sin.”

9 “And I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt.

I will make you dwell in tents again,

as in the days of the appointed festival.

10 And I spoke through the prophets,

and I, I multiplied visions,

and by the hand of the prophets I gave parables.”

11 If Gilead is iniquity,

surely they have become worthlessness.

In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls;

even their altars will be like heaps

on the furrows of the field.

12 And Jacob fled to the field of Aram,

and Israel served for a wife,

and for a wife he kept sheep.

13 And by a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up from Egypt,

and by a prophet he was kept.

14 Ephraim has provoked bitternesses,

and his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him

and will return his reproach to him.