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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.
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| 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.
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| 12:3 |
In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And by his strength he was a prince with God,
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| 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,
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| 12:5 |
Even Jehovah, God of the Hosts, Jehovah [is] His memorial.
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| 12:6 |
And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually.
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| 12:7 |
Canaan! in his hand [are] balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.
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| 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.'
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| 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.
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| 12:10 |
And I have spoken unto the prophets, And I have multiplied vision, And by the hand of the prophets I use similes.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 12:13 |
And by a prophet hath Jehovah brought up Israel out of Egypt, And by a prophet it hath been watched.
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| 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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