Oseas 12

1Ephraim herds the wind and hunts the sirocco. All day long they heap up falsehood and fraud, make a treaty with Assyria, and sends tribute of olive oil to Egypt. 2The Lord has a charge to bring against Israel, to punish Jacob for his acts, to his deeds will he requite him, 3In the womb he supplanted his brother, in manhood he wrestled with God, 4He wrestled with the angel and prevailed, his blessing. Lord found him, with us. 5And the Lord is the God of hosts, the Lord is his name! 6So now, by the help of your God, return. true love and justice. in your God without ceasing. 7A merchant uses false scales: love to defraud. 8Ephraim says, ‘Yes, I have become rich, I have secured wealth for myself. my gains one will find a crime I can be convicted of!’ 9I am the Lord your God, ever since the land of Egypt. I will make you again dwell in tents, as in days of old. 10I spoke continually by the prophets. It was I who multiplied visions, and spoke in parables through the prophets. 11In Gilead is iniquity, they will come to nothing. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, so their altars will be as stone heaps, among the furrows of the field. 12And Jacob fled to the territory of Aram, and Israel worked to earn a wife: for a wife he herded sheep. 13The Lord brought Israel up from Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet Israel was guarded.