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Hosea 12:7-14
New International Version
Hosea 12:7-14
New International Version
7 The merchant uses dishonest scales(A)
and loves to defraud.
8 Ephraim boasts,(B)
“I am very rich; I have become wealthy.(C)
With all my wealth they will not find in me
any iniquity or sin.”
9 “I have been the Lord your God
ever since you came out of Egypt;(D)
I will make you live in tents(E) again,
as in the days of your appointed festivals.
10 I spoke to the prophets,
gave them many visions
and told parables(F) through them.”(G)
11 Is Gilead wicked?(H)
Its people are worthless!
Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal?(I)
Their altars will be like piles of stones
on a plowed field.(J)
12 Jacob fled to the country of Aram[a];(K)
Israel served to get a wife,
and to pay for her he tended sheep.(L)
13 The Lord used a prophet to bring Israel up from Egypt,(M)
by a prophet he cared for him.(N)
14 But Ephraim has aroused his bitter anger;
his Lord will leave on him the guilt of his bloodshed(O)
and will repay him for his contempt.(P)
Footnotes
- Hosea 12:12 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia
Hosea 12:7-14
King James Version
Hosea 12:7-14
King James Version
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 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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