1Ephraim feeds on wind, he pursues the east wind all day, he piles up treachery and havoc; he makes a treaty with Assyria and carries tribute of oil to Egypt.
2The LORD has a charge to bring against Judah and is resolved to punish Jacob for his conduct; he will requite him for his misdeeds.
3Even in the womb Jacob supplanted his brother, and in manhood he strove with God.
4He strove with the angel and prevailed; he wept and entreated his favour. God met him at Bethel and spoke with him there.
5The LORD the God of Hosts, the LORD is his name!
6Turn back by God's help; maintain loyalty and justice and wait continually for your God.
7False scales are in merchants' hands, and they love to cheat.
8Ephraim says, “Surely I have become rich, I have made my fortune, but despite all my gains the guilt of sin will not be found in me.”
9Yet I have been the LORD your God since your days in Egypt; I shall make you live in tents yet again, as in the days of the Tent of Meeting.
10I spoke to the prophets; it was I who gave vision after vision: I declared my mind through them.
11In Gilead there was idolatry, the people were worthless and sacrificed to bull-gods in Gilgal; their altars were like heaps of stones beside a ploughed field.
12Jacob fled to the land of Aram; Israel did service to win a wife, to win her he tended sheep.
13By a prophet the LORD brought Israel up from Egypt and by a prophet Israel was tended.
14Ephraim gave bitter provocation; he will be left to suffer for the blood he has shed; his Lord will punish him for all his blasphemy.
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