ULT HOS Chapter 12

12 Ephraim feeds on the wind

and pursues the east wind all day.

He multiplies lies and violence.

They make a covenant with Assyria

and olive oil is carried to Egypt.

2 Yahweh also has a dispute with Judah,

and will punish Jacob according to his ways;

he will repay him according to his deeds.

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

and in his manhood he struggled with God.

4 He struggled with the angel and prevailed.

He wept and begged for his favor.

He found him at Bethel;

and there he spoke with us.

5 Yahweh, the God of hosts;

Yahweh is his memorial name.

6 But you must return to your God.

Keep covenantal love and justice,

and wait continually for your God.

7 A merchant has false scales in his hands;

he loves to oppress.

8 Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich;

I have found wealth for myself.

In all my labors they will not find iniquity in me,

which would be sin.”

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

I will again make you live in tents,

as in the days of the appointed festival.

10 I spoke to the prophets,

and I multiplied visions.

By the hand of the prophets I gave parables.”

11 If there is iniquity in Gilead,

surely they are worthless.

In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls;

their altars also will be like heaps of stone beside the furrows of the fields.

12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram;

Israel worked for a wife;

and for a wife, he kept sheep.

13 Yahweh brought Israel up from Egypt by a prophet,

and by a prophet he was kept.

14 Ephraim has bitterly provoked to anger.

So his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him

and will turn back his reproach to him.