King James Bible

Hosea 11

The Book of Hosea

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Chapter 12

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  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.  

 

 

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  The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.  

 

 

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  He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:  

 

 

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  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;  

 

 

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  Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD [is] his memorial.  

 

 

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  Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.  

 

 

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  [He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.  

 

 

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  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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  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.  

 

 

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  I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.  

 

 

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  [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.  

 

 

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12


 

  And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].  

 

 

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  And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.  

 

 

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  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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