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Chapter 12  
     
1.
 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.  
2.
 The Lord has also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
  
3.
 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
  
4.
 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us;
  
5.
 Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his memorial.
  
6.
 Therefore turn you to thy God: keep mercy and judgment and wait on thy God continually.  
7.
 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
  
8.
 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
  
9.
 And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make you to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
  
10.
 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
  
11.
 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
  
12.
 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
  
13.
 And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
  
14.
 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
  

 
 
 

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