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| 12:1 | Ephraim is enjoying wind, And is pursuing an east wind, All the day lying and spoiling he multiplieth, And a covenant with Asshur they make, And oil to Egypt is carried. |
| 12:2 | And a controversy hath Jehovah with Judah, To lay a charge on Jacob according to his ways, According to his doings He returneth to him. |
| 12:3 | In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And by his strength he was a prince with God, |
| 12:4 | Yea, he is a prince unto the Messenger, And he overcometh `by' weeping, And he maketh supplication to Him, At Bethel He doth find him, And there He doth speak with us, |
| 12:5 | Even Jehovah, God of the Hosts, Jehovah `is' His memorial. |
| 12:6 | And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually. |
| 12:7 | Canaan! in his hand `are' balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved. |
| 12:8 | And Ephraim saith: `Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours -- they find not against me iniquity that `is' sin.' |
| 12:9 | And I -- Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, Again do I turn thee back into tents, As in the days of the appointed time. |
| 12:10 | And I have spoken unto the prophets, And I have multiplied vision, And by the hand of the prophets I use similes. |
| 12:11 | Surely Gilead `is' iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars `are' as heaps, on the furrows of a field. |
| 12:12 | And Jacob doth flee to the country of Aram, And Israel doth serve for a wife, Yea, for a wife he hath kept watch. |
| 12:13 | And by a prophet hath Jehovah brought up Israel out of Egypt, And by a prophet it hath been watched. |
| 12:14 | Ephraim hath provoked most bitterly, And his blood on himself he leaveth, And his reproach turn back to him doth his Lord! |
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| 12:1 | Ephraim kepeth the ayre, and foloweth after the east wynde: he is euer increasinge lyes & destruction. They be confederate with the Assirians, their oyle is caried in to Egipte. |
| 12:2 | The LORDE hath a courte to holde with Iuda, and wil punysh Iacob: After their owne waies and acordinge to their owne inuencions, shal he recompence them. |
| 12:3 | He toke his brother by the hele, when he was yet in his mothers wombe: and in his strength he wrestled with God. |
| 12:4 | He stroue with the Angel, and gat the victory: so that he prayde and desyred him. He fande him at Bethel, & there he talked wt vs. |
| 12:5 | Yee the LORDE God of hoostes, euen ye LORDE him self remembred him: |
| 12:6 | Then turne to thy God, kepe mercy and equyte, and hope still in thy God. |
| 12:7 | But the marchaunt hath a false weight in his honde, he hath a pleasure to occupie extorcion. |
| 12:8 | Ephraim thinketh thus: Tush, I am rich, I haue good ynough: In all my workes shal not one fawte be founde, that I haue offended. |
| 12:9 | Yet am I the LORDE thy God, eue as when I brought the out of the londe of Egipte, and set the in thy tentes, and as in the hye feast dayes. |
| 12:10 | I haue spoke thorow the prophetes, and shewed dyuerse visions, and declared my self by the ministracion of ye prophetes. |
| 12:11 | But at Galaad is the abhominacion, they are fallen to vanyte. At Galgal they haue slayne oxen: and as many heapes of stones as they had in their lode forowes, so many aulters haue they made. |
| 12:12 | Iacob fled into the londe of Siria, and Israel serued for a wife, and for a wife he kepte shepe. |
| 12:13 | By a prophet the LORDE brought them out of Egipte, and by a prophet he preserued the. |
| 12:14 | But Ephraim hath prouoked him to displeasure thorow his abhominacions: therfore shal his bloude be poured vpon him self, and the LORDE his God shal rewarde him his blasphemies. |
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