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.
02 The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah,
and will punish Jacob according to his ways;
according to his doings will he recompense him.
03 He took his brother by the heel in the womb,
and by his strength he had power with God:
04 Yea, he had power over the angel, and
prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto
him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake
with us;
05 Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his
memorial.
06 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and
judgment and wait on thy God continually.
07 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are
in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
08 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.
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09 And I that am the Lord thy God from the land
of Egypt will yet make thee 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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