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Hosea 12 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Hos 12:1

Hos 12:1Ephraim 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.

Hos 12:2

Hos 12:2And a controversy hath Jehovah with Judah, To lay a charge on Jacob according to his ways, According to his doings He returneth to him.

Hos 12:3

Hos 12:3In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And by his strength he was a prince with God,

Hos 12:4

Hos 12:4Yea, 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,

Hos 12:5

Hos 12:5Even Jehovah, God of the Hosts, Jehovah is His memorial.

Hos 12:6

Hos 12:6And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually.

Hos 12:7

Hos 12:7Canaan! in his hand are balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.

Hos 12:8

Hos 12:8And 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.'

Hos 12:9

Hos 12:9And 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.

Hos 12:10

Hos 12:10And I have spoken unto the prophets, And I have multiplied vision, And by the hand of the prophets I use similes.

Hos 12:11

Hos 12:11Surely 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.

Hos 12:12

Hos 12:12And Jacob doth flee to the country of Aram, And Israel doth serve for a wife, Yea, for a wife he hath kept watch.

Hos 12:13

Hos 12:13And by a prophet hath Jehovah brought up Israel out of Egypt, And by a prophet it hath been watched.

Hos 12:14

Hos 12:14Ephraim 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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